Floral Inlay
Description
Object Label: The walls of the Great Palace at el Amarna were decorated with small inlays arranged to form complex scenes. In many of these scenes, members of the royal family present great formal bouquets to the Aten. This inlay—a yellow persea fruit and a lotus flower—was the uppermost element of one of these bouquets. Caption: Floral Inlay, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Faience, 2 1/2 × 1 15/16 in. (6.3 × 5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 49.8. (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.
Small Egyptian faience floral-inlay fragment showing a fan-like striped flower segment with a dark central stem and green/white/orange glaze bands.
The object is a compact, molded faience piece with a recessed, fan-shaped floral motif. The surface is glazed in green, white, and orange-yellow tones: radiating dark-and-light stripes form the sides of the “petals,” while a darker central element runs vertically toward a yellow/orange top. The underside appears squared/flat for insertion into a base. No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or text are visible. No human or divine figures are depicted—only a decorative floral design consistent with an inlay element.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 49.8 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3526 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
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