Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · vessel

Small Toilet Dish

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Description

Caption: Small Toilet Dish, ca. 1390–1336 B.C.E.. Faience, 2 15/16 × 1/8 × 4 1/8 in. (7.5 × 0.3 × 10.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.346E. (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 piece of broken pottery with visible inscriptions.

The artifact is a fragmentary piece of pottery displaying a cartouche with Egyptian hieroglyphs. The pottery is a grayish color, and the surface shows wear and some brown discoloration, indicating age. The style is typical of ancient Egyptian art, with precise yet simple hieroglyphic elements.

royal unknown fragmentary
Materials pottery
Signs cartouche

Connections

Found at Egypt
Materials Pottery

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.346E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117009 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.
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