Funerary Vessel of the Wab-priest of Amon, Nefer-her, Painted to Imitate Stone
Description
Caption: Funerary Vessel of the Wab-priest of Amon, Nefer-her, Painted to Imitate Stone, ca. 1479–1279 B.C.E.. Clay, pigment, 8 1/4 x Diam. 4 7/16 in. (21 x 11.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.343E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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(BKM-Object 4024).
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- Brooklyn 37.343E 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.
Painted terracotta funerary vessel with a flared rim and bulbous body, covered in reddish-brown pigment over a white ground and bearing bands of painted hieroglyph-like marks.
The image shows an Ancient Egyptian-style ceramic vessel (vase/jar) with a narrow neck, an everted/flared rim, and a rounded, slightly waisted body. The surface is painted in brown/red pigment on a light (off-white) ground, with overall mottled/brush-like decoration intended to imitate stone. A prominent horizontal band near the lower body contains repeated painted rectangular/vertical black marks and other dark strokes, while the upper neck/body area is filled with scattered hieroglyph-like abstract linear forms. The marks are not clear enough to reliably translate or identify specific signs with certainty. No clearly legible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. No explicit cartouche is legible from the image, and specific deity names are not securely identifiable.
Cross-references (3)
- BKM-Accession 37.343E tier-2
- BKM-Object 4024 tier-2
- PNM-Object pnm:83913785 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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.