Fragment of a Trial Piece
Description
Caption: Fragment of a Trial Piece, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Limestone, 3 7/16 × 3 15/16 × 7/8 in. (8.7 × 10 × 2.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Society, 36.877.
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
Fragment of limestone relief depicting a detailed face profile.
The limestone fragment shows a finely carved profile of a face, possibly belonging to a noble or royal figure, indicated by the precision of the carving. The style suggests an emphasis on naturalistic facial features, common in certain periods of ancient Egyptian art. No clear inscriptions are visible, which was often the case with high-relief carvings focused on depicting individuals.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 36.877 tier-2
- BKM-Object 46929 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.
- 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.