Floral Inlay
Description
Object Label: Inlays The late Eighteenth Dynasty taste for opulence extended to inlaid wall decoration in temples, palaces, and large houses. During the reign of Akhenaten, skilled workmen began to create scenes by piecing together individual fragments of colored glass or faience. These works depicted the king, natural motifs, and faithful worshipers beneath the Aten sundisk. Many of these motifs had already appeared in paintings in earlier buildings, but the new medium added vividness and prominence. Architectural inlay continued into the Twentieth Dynasty. Caption: Floral Inlay, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Faience, 2 × 2 15/16 in. (5.1 × 7.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Society, 37.411.
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.
The image shows a broken small faience inlay fragment decorated with light-colored and green floral/leaf-like elements, photographed on a neutral background. A second, separate dark rounded object with floral-like ridges appears at upper right.
The primary artifact is a fragmentary panel of faience (glazed ceramic) with a pattern resembling floral or leaf inlay: pale/cream field areas bordered by green leaf/wing-like shapes and darker outlines. Several edges are chipped, indicating an incomplete object. The surface has visible glazing highlights consistent with faience. No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or inscriptions are visible on the fragment. The upper-right feature appears to be a separate element (dark, rounded, with petal-like ridges) rather than part of the main inlay; its material and relation to the catalogued object are unclear from the photo.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.411 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3437 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.
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