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Model Hoe

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Description

Object Label: Foundation Deposits In addition to commissioning new buildings, Egyptian kings occasionally claimed existing structures such as temples or palaces as their own. The most common way for a king to do this was to substitute his own name for that of the original builder in the inscriptions. When a king commissioned a new structure, he buried objects in the four corners of the foundation to be certain that the gods would remember the true builder and that later kings could not find and reinscribe them. These so-called foundation deposits usually included plaques with the king’s name, as well as models of objects used to erect the building, such as grinders, hoes, and rockers needed to move large stones. Caption: Model Hoe, ca. 1478–1458 B.C.E.. Wood, 02.227a: Diam. 1/2 × 12 3/16 in. (1.3 × 31 cm) 02.227b: Diam. 1/2 × 12 5/16 in. (1.3 × 31.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 02.227a-b. (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.

Wooden fragment of an ancient Egyptian artifact, resembling a part of a tool or instrument.

The image depicts a wooden artifact consisting of two elongated, slightly curved pieces. The wood shows signs of age with a smooth, polished surface and a uniform patina, indicating it might have been a part of a functional object. The composition hints at it being a segment of a larger tool or instrument, possibly utilitarian in nature.

unclear unknown good
Materials wood

Connections

Found at Thebes
Materials Wood

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 02.227a-b tier-2
  • BKM-Object 3200 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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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.