Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · other
Scribe's Palette with Four Reeds
Description
Caption: Scribe's Palette with Four Reeds, ca. 1539–1075 B.C.E.. Wood, reed, ink, 3/8 x 1 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (0.9 x 3.8 x 28.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.450E. (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 artifact with visible inscriptions and notched design.
The artifact appears to be a wooden implement, likely used for measurement or record-keeping, featuring inscriptions along its surface. The notched design suggests it might have been used for practical or ceremonial purposes. The writing style is linear and black in color, possibly using ink.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.450E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117099 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.
- 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.