Building Scene
Description
Caption: Building Scene, ca. 1352–1347 B.C.E.. Sandstone, pigment, 7 1/2 x 10 7/16 x 1 3/16 in. (19 x 26.5 x 3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of William Kelly Simpson, 86.132. (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 fragment of a sandstone relief depicting a procession of figures.
The artifact is a fragmentary sandstone relief showing a series of heads in profile, likely representing a procession. The figures are carved in a low relief style typical of Egyptian artwork, with emphasis on detailing facial features and headdresses. The relief is worn, and features of the figures are partially eroded, typical of ancient artifacts subjected to time. Above the figures is a horizontal band which may have contained inscriptions or additional decorative elements.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 86.132 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3920 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.