Fragment Mentioning Offerings Middle KingdomLahun, Egypt
Description
Object Label: More than one-fifth of the over seven hundred ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic signs represent animals or parts of animals. Scribes used animal images in hieroglyphs to represent sounds as well as the animal itself. Here, the image of a duck fledgling in the upper left section of the relief represents the word for “pellet,” referring to a piece of incense. The sound tja was found in the two words for “duck fledgling” and “pellet” in the ancient Egyptian language, making this hieroglyph the convention for representing that sound. Caption: Fragment Mentioning Offerings, ca. 1844–1835 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 11 1/4 x 17 x 3 3/4 in., 42 lb. (28.6 x 43.2 x 9.5 cm, 19.05kg). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 14.667. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 14.667 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3123 tier-2
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