Staff of Amunmose
Description
Object Label: The single column of text relates that this staff was an "offering to Amun by the craftsman of the Princess Baket-Amun, may she live, Amunmose." Caption: Staff of Amunmose, ca. 1336–1295 B.C.E.. Wood, Length: 28 1/16 in. (71.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1830E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A curved wooden object with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a slightly curved wooden staff or scepter with inscriptions along its surface. The carving style suggests traditional hieroglyphic engravings, possibly representing symbols or text of significance. Notable features include the smoothness of the wood and the clear, though slightly worn, hieroglyphs that cover a portion of its length.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1830E tier-2
- BKM-Object 4183 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.