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Fragment Mentioning Offerings

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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-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.

Limestone tablet with hieroglyphic carvings including a duck, a seated figure, and other symbols.

The artifact is a limestone tablet with detailed carvings of hieroglyphs. It includes a depiction of a duck, a seated human figure, and various traditional Egyptian symbols, crafted with attention to detail typical of formal inscriptions. The composition seems focused on a central section with parallel lines and carved figures alternating between icons and abstract symbols.

hieroglyphic only unknown fragmentary
Materials limestone
Signs duck seated man

Connections

Found at Lahun
Materials Limestone

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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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.