Relief of Men Presenting Cattle
Description
Object Label: In this sculpture in relief, three men bring cattle to the tomb owner, “from the towns of the estate,” as the inscription says. Two of these balding, rustic laborers wear kilts of coarse material, and the other wears nothing at all. A fragmentary scene below shows men bringing cranes, which were penned and raised for food. Artisans carved images of live food animals in tombs to supply the deceased with an eternal source of provisions. Caption: Relief of Men Presenting Cattle, ca. 2500–2350 B.C.E.. Limestone, 20 1/16 x 29 15/16 in. (51 x 76 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 49.62. (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.
The artifact depicts scenes with people herding cattle, accompanied by a vertical column of hieroglyphs.
This limestone artifact features two rows of scenes showing individuals herding cattle to the left. To the right, there is a vertical column containing hieroglyphic inscriptions. The style is typical of Egyptian relief art, with figures in profile and a focus on agricultural activities. The craftsmanship demonstrates attention to detail in the rendering of human figures and animals, characteristic of Egyptian art used in both daily life and funerary contexts.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 49.62 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3539 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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