Small Box with Separate Cover
Description
Caption: Small Box with Separate Cover, ca. 1539–1075 B.C.E., and 19th century C.E.. Wood (Dicotyledon and Cotyledon), ivory, pigment, 1 x 1 1/2 x 2 7/16 in. (2.5 x 3.8 x 6.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.844E. (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.
A wooden model believed to represent a granary or chest.
The image depicts a small wooden artifact resembling a chest or granary, used in ancient Egyptian daily life or funerary practices. The model features a rectangular shape with a sliding lid on top, indicative of storage purposes. Such models were often included in tombs to provide for the deceased in the afterlife. The craftsmanship is simplistic, focusing on functional design rather than decorative elements.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.844E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117435 tier-2
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.