Sculptor's Trial Piece
Description
Caption: Sculptor's Trial Piece, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 4 9/16 × 4 × 1 in. (11.6 × 10.2 × 2.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Society, 35.1998. (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.
The artifact appears to be a carved piece depicting waves and possibly reeds or plants.
This is a carved stone fragment showing a repeated pattern of angled elements resembling waves, with vertical elements that seem to evoke reeds or plants. The carving is relatively shallow with some remnants of red pigment visible, likely indicating color use in the original context. The style is abstract, focusing on simple forms and repeating motifs.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 35.1998 tier-2
- BKM-Object 45622 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.