Fragment of Tile
Description
Caption: Fragment of Tile, ca. 1352–1332 B.C.E.. Faience, 2 1/8 × 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (5.4 × 0.7 × 3.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.353. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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.
A small fragment of ancient Egyptian faience with traces of hieroglyphs.
This image depicts a small fragment of faience, a glazed non-clay ceramic material, common in ancient Egypt. The fragment shows a greenish-blue glaze that is typical of faience, with two visible hieroglyphic signs. The piece is triangular in shape with visible wear at the edges, indicative of its age and possible excavation origin. The hieroglyphs are simple, suggesting it could be part of a larger inscription.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.353 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9607 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.