Relief of Two Men Bowing
Description
Caption: Relief of Two Men Bowing, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 9 3/16 x 21 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (23.3 x 54 x 3.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 68.154. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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.
A painted limestone relief fragment showing two human figures in profile with their arms posed in a submissive/bowing gesture, one figure placed above the other.
The artifact is a rectangular, horizontally oriented limestone relief fragment with weathered surfaces and loss along the edges. In the lower portion, two male-presenting human figures are carved in shallow relief and retain traces of pigment. Both figures are shown in profile facing left, with heads inclined and arms brought forward/down in a posture consistent with bowing or submission. The figures occupy the left half of the composition; the remaining right background is mostly plain stone with no clearly legible inscriptions visible. A small, broken vertical edge on the far right suggests the original relief extended further but is now damaged. No clear royal cartouche, divine iconography, or continuous hieroglyphic text can be confidently identified from the visible area.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 68.154 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3772 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.