Talatat
Description
Caption: Talatat, ca. 1359–1352 B.C.E.. Limestone, 8 11/16 × 16 1/2 × 2 5/8 in. (22.1 × 41.9 × 6.7 cm) template (t1): 22 × 12 in. (55.9 × 30.5 cm) template (t2): 50 1/2 × 40 1/4 in. (128.3 × 102.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Prof. Dr. H. A. Schlögl in memory of Bernard V. Bothmer, 2022.17. (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.
An ancient Egyptian mudbrick with depictions of trees and an ibis.
This mudbrick fragment features incised depictions of trees and what appears to be an ibis, characteristic of daily life or symbolic motifs from ancient Egyptian art. The style of the carving is simplistic, with clear outlines and little detail, typical of utilitarian objects. The notable features include the use of low relief carving into the mudbrick surface.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 2022.17 tier-2
- BKM-Object 224945 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.