Relief with a Servant Making theTomb Owner's Bed
Description
Caption: Relief with a Servant Making theTomb Owner's Bed, ca. 2350–2170 B.C.E.. Limestone, 17 × 1 3/16 × 36 3/4 in. (43.2 × 3 × 93.3 cm) mounted: 20 × 4 × 39 1/2 in. (50.8 × 10.2 × 100.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 71.10.1a-d. (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 fragmentary limestone relief featuring carved figures and hieroglyphic inscriptions.
This piece is a limestone relief panel that depicts a series of carved figures and columns of hieroglyphs. The artwork shows signs of age with erosion and breakage around the edges. The style of the figures is consistent with Egyptian relief work, characterized by profile depictions and formal postures. The composition includes vertical sections with visible figures and symbols that may hold religious or cultural significance.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 71.10.1a-d tier-2
- BKM-Object 3797 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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