Irregular Fragment
Description
Caption: Irregular Fragment, ca. 1539–1292 B.C.E.. Limestone, ink, 5 13/16 × 5/16 × 9 7/16 in. (14.8 × 0.8 × 24 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, 16.118a-b. (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 is a fragment of an ancient Egyptian ostraca with several hieratic inscriptions.
The artifact is a broken piece of ostraca featuring detailed hieratic script organized into several vertical and horizontal lines. The composition is linear, with visible columns and rows of hieratic symbols that might have been part of a larger document or record. The piece appears to be made of limestone and the ink is black, indicating that it may have been used for writing by scribes in ancient times. The artifact’s surface shows signs of wear but the inscriptions are mostly clear.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.118a-b tier-2
- BKM-Object 9398 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.