Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · architecture

Fragment of a Tile

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Description

Caption: Fragment of a Tile, ca. 1352–1332 B.C.E.. Faience, 1 5/16 × 3/8 × 2 1/16 in. (3.4 × 1 × 5.2 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, 16.333.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Small, irregular fragment with remnants of colored glazed decoration consistent with an inscribed tile or decorative faience fragment.

The image shows a small, broken fragment photographed against a neutral gray background. The surviving surface has a glazed, faience-like sheen and includes distinct color zones: off-white/cream areas along the left edge, a dark blue/indigo triangular patch at the upper portion, and green paint/glaze forming curved, petal- or leaf-like shapes across the lower half. A thin, outlined green form appears to border the green areas, suggesting part of a larger decorative motif. No clear hieroglyphs, cartouches, or figure outlines are legible in the provided view. No modern or non-Egyptian scripts (Greek/Coptic/Arabic) are visible.

decorative New Kingdom, Amarna Period (catalogue ground truth; not directly verifiable from image) fragmentary
Materials faience/glazed ceramicpainted glaze (green)glaze (dark blue)

Connections

Materials GlazePainted Glaze

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.333 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 9589 tier-2
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