Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · architecture
Dovetail
Description
Caption: Dovetail, ca. 1539–1075 B.C.E.. Wood. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.468E. (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 artifact shaped like an elongated hourglass.
The artifact is a wooden object with a distinctive hourglass shape, likely employed as a tool or ceremonial item. The wood is weathered, suggesting age, with visible grain and small cracks, indicating natural degradation over time.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
wood
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.468E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117117 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.
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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.