Unfinished Votive Stela of Ptah
Description
Caption: Unfinished Votive Stela of Ptah, ca. 1539–1075 B.C.E.. Limestone, 5 9/16 × 3 3/8 × 3/4 in. (14.1 × 8.6 × 1.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.91. (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 carved limestone stele depicting a standing figure.
The artifact is a small limestone stele featuring a carved outline of a standing figure, possibly a deity. The carving is simple and lacks detailed features but shows a frontal posture typical in Egyptian art. The surface exhibits some wear and patina, indicative of age.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.91 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9349 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.