Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · architecture
Floral Inlay New Kingdom, Amarna PeriodTell el-Amarna, Egypt
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)
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A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 49.8 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3526 tier-2
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