Fragment of Tile with Water Scene
Description
Caption: Fragment of Tile with Water Scene, ca. 1352–1332 B.C.E.. Faience, 2 3/4 × 1/2 × 3 1/4 in. (7 × 1.2 × 8.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.335. (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.
Fragment of an ancient Egyptian artifact with a zigzag pattern and partial decoration.
This artifact is a fragment with a distinctive zigzag pattern painted in dark color on a lighter background. The top part shows a partly preserved semi-circular decoration that might indicate a landscape or celestial motif. The broken edges suggest it was once part of a larger piece. The style suggests decorative purposes, possibly from a larger decorative tile or inlay.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.335 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9591 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.