Mirror Disk
Description
Object Label: Originally, the bronze disks in this case were attached to wooden handles to form mirrors. At the time of burial, the mirrors were stored in linen covers. Over the centuries, both the handles and the bags disintegrated. The smaller of these two disks still shows an impression of the linen, created by the material’s interaction with the bronze. Caption: Mirror Disk, ca. 1938–1700 B.C.E.. Bronze, 2 3/16 x 2 9/16 in. (5.6 x 6.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 13.1044. (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.
A flat stone artifact with visible carved text.
The artifact is a roughly oval-shaped stone with inscribed lines of text. It appears to be a fragment of a larger piece, with notable erosion on the edges. Carvings consist of several lines likely in hieroglyphic script, visible through the wear of the surface.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 13.1044 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3103 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.