Fragmentary Stela
Description
Caption: Fragmentary Stela, ca. 1539–1075 B.C.E.. Limestone, 6 5/16 x 4 3/4 x 1 5/8 in. (16 x 12.1 x 4.2 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, 16.93. (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.
The artifact depicts two human figures offering libations, with vertical hieroglyphs above.
This relief shows two individuals engaged in a ritual offering scene. They hold items resembling cups or vessels. The composition features finely carved figures in profile, indicative of religious or ceremonial activities. Above them are vertical lines of hieroglyphs, likely indicating names or titles. The carving is on a piece of limestone, typical of many Egyptian artifacts used for religious or funerary purposes.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.93 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9350 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.