Ahmose, also known as Ruru
Description
Object Label: Middle Kingdom style influenced Eighteenth Dynasty royal and non-royal sculpture and relief until the middle of the dynasty. This seated figure represents a man named Ahmose, who the inscription reveals was commonly known as Ruru. The artist depicted Ahmose in a wig and a cloak derived from Middle Kingdom prototypes. The short chin beard, wide eyes, and strongly arched brows, however, reflect the style of his own time. Caption: Ahmose, also known as Ruru, ca. 1478–1458 B.C.E.. Graywacke, 15 x 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (38.1 x 13.4 x 19 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 61.196. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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- Brooklyn 61.196 PNM text
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.
A seated Egyptian royal statue in dark stone, shown from the front-left with an inlaid/inscribed base, wearing the striped nemes-style headcloth and holding a was-scepter and/or cross-hands gesture.
The object appears to be a small, seated stone figure of an Egyptian king. The head is covered by a striped headcloth (nemes) draped over the forehead and falling at the sides, with stylized facial features and a straight-backed posture. The arms are crossed or held in a composed offering-like pose, with one hand raised near the chest. A long vertical element resembling a scepter shaft or arm-rest detail extends downward in front of the figure. The front and sides of the base are densely carved with rows of hieroglyphs arranged in vertical columns; the sign shapes are visible but too small/blurred to reliably transcribe individual signs. No clearly readable Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. No obvious mineral grain can be confirmed from the image alone, but the surface looks like a dark, fine-grained hard stone consistent with the greywacke catalogue material.
Cross-references (3)
- BKM-Accession 61.196 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3715 tier-2
- PNM-Object pnm:83896979 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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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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