Fragment Mentioning Offerings
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
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
Photograph of a large limestone fragment carved with hieroglyphic text and traces of colored pigment, likely a funerary/ritual offering inscription.
The image shows a roughly rectangular, weathered stone block set on a display mount. The surface is carved in sunk-relief hieroglyphs arranged in multiple horizontal bands, with some signs appearing as long narrow strokes and seated/standing figures or sign groups on the left and right edges. Faint remaining pigment is visible in small areas, including green/blue tones around some carved details. No clearly legible cartouche or complete royal titulary is preserved in the visible portion. There are no Greek, Coptic, or Arabic scripts visible. The overall subject appears consistent with an offering/ritual inscription fragment, though individual deity names are not reliably readable from this image alone.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 14.667 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3123 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.
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