Riverside Scene
Description
Object Label: Part of this boat moored along the Nile appears in the lower left corner of this relief. Next to the boat a farmer, carrying two large water jars suspended from a pole, climbs the steep riverbank. His goal is the irrigated field, arranged in square plots, at the far right. In the scene at the very top, a shipbuilder smoothes a wooden plank. Caption: Riverside Scene, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 9 1/4 × 15 × 1 11/16 in. (23.5 × 38.1 × 4.3 cm) mount (m1: wall mount on board): 11 3/4 × 17 1/2 × 3 in. (29.8 × 44.5 × 7.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 65.16. (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 shows seated and standing human/figure-like forms in a river-and-bank context, with surrounding geometric and block-like painted elements and faint linear marks resembling hieroglyphic or decorative framing.
The object appears to be a rectangular limestone relief fragment with substantial edge loss. Several painted red-brown lines and areas survive. In the upper register, a human-like figure with a raised arm is depicted at center-right, accompanied by angular, grid/block-like motifs in adjacent areas. In the lower register, a larger seated/standing figure is visible at center, shown with a cloak or garment-like drapery and a rounded head, while another figure-like form appears at lower left with arms/legs indicated by red outlines. The right side includes vertical and rectangular block-like painted shapes that could be decorative paneling or part of an inscription layout; no clearly legible individual signs can be confirmed. There is no clearly readable cartouche, royal titulary, or definite deity iconography; the figures could represent people associated with a waterscape, but deity identification is uncertain from the fragmentary image.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 65.16 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3738 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.