Relief of a Bowing Courtier
Description
Caption: Relief of a Bowing Courtier, ca. 1345–1330 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 8 1/4 x 15 1/4 x 1 7/8 in. (21 x 38.8 x 4.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.226.26. (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 stone relief depicting a sphinx with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a stone relief featuring a carved depiction of a sphinx, facing right. The carving shows some erosion, suggesting age, but retains discernible outlines. On the right side of the stone, there is a vertical column of hieroglyphic inscriptions. The relief is stylistically simple, characteristic of Egyptian art where figures are depicted in profile.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 86.226.26 tier-2
- BKM-Object 124815 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.