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Part of a Leg of a Chair

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Description

Caption: Part of a Leg of a Chair, ca. 1539–1292 B.C.E.. Wood, 9 5/16 x 1 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (23.7 x 4.4 x 3.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.446E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

The same text in other collections

Linked by shared inventory number (BKM-Object 117096). Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

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.

Photograph of a weathered carved wooden fragment shaped like part of a chair leg, with a shallow band of incised hieroglyphs along its top edge.

The object is a long, narrow, horizontally oriented wooden fragment with rounded ends and a slightly tapering/curving profile. Along one long side (near the top in the image) there is a shallow, incised register containing multiple lines of hieroglyph-like marks. The incised signs are worn and partly eroded, making individual identification uncertain. No painted surface, gilding, or metal fittings are clearly visible. A small paper label with an accession/collection number is present in the photo but it is not ancient text from the object. The hieroglyphs appear to be the only inscriptions visible; no Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is present.

decorative New Kingdom (per catalogue; inscription style appears consistent but cannot be securely verified from the worn signs) fragmentary
Materials wood
Signs incised hieroglyph group (unidentified)
Visible text "Incised hieroglyphs present along the top edge; text too worn/obscured to accurately transcribe."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Incised hieroglyphs present along the top edge; text too worn/obscured to accurately transcribe.

Connections

Found at Thebes
Materials Wood

Cross-references (3)

  • BKM-Accession 37.446E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117096 tier-2
  • PNM-Object pnm:83911978 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.