Decorated Ostrakon
Description
Object Label: The ancient Egyptians often made casual sketches on chips of limestone or pottery now called ostraka. The figure on one of these ostraka represents a horned animal, probably a goat, with a collar indicating that the creature was domesticated. The other piece shows a schematically drawn animal that cannot be identified. Caption: Decorated Ostrakon, ca. 1336–1295 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 3 13/16 x 6 7/8 in. (9.7 x 17.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 58.28.1. (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 painted fragment of a bull on a piece of limestone.
This image shows a fragment of limestone depicting the figure of a bull painted in brownish-red pigment. The style is simple yet indicative of Egyptian artistic representation, focusing primarily on profile depiction. Notable features include the use of natural mineral pigments and the fragmentary condition, which suggests it was part of a larger composition.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 58.28.1 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3644 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
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