Talatat
Description
Caption: Talatat, ca. 1352–1332 B.C.E.. Limestone, 9 1/4 × 21 × 2 1/8 in., 26.5 lb. (23.5 × 53.3 × 5.4 cm, 12.02kg). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Albert Gallatin and Stanley J. Love, by exchange, Frank L. Babbott Fund, Henry L. Batterman Fund, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund and Designated Purchase Fund, 2019.13. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum) Tags Brooklyn Icons
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.
Rectangular limestone carving with two horizontal registers featuring papyrus plants.
This artifact is carved from limestone, featuring two horizontal registers. The upper register depicts seated figures, while the lower register is filled with stylized papyrus plants. The composition is simple yet elegant, highlighting the importance of papyrus in ancient Egyptian culture. The carving style suggests a focus on natural elements, which is common in Egyptian art.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 2019.13 tier-2
- BKM-Object 224450 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.