Fragment of Palette
Description
Caption: Fragment of Palette, ca. 3300–3100 B.C.E.. Greywacke, 4 1/16 x 3 1/4 x 1/2 in. (10.3 x 8.3 x 1.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 35.1272. (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.
A dark, stone fragment shaped like a broken portion of a cosmetic palette, with incised/relief-like borders and a shallow central recess.
The image shows a small, irregular fragment of a hard stone object photographed against a light background. The visible surface is dark grey to black and has areas of wear and small chips. One edge forms a raised border and the fragment includes a shallow, concave central area bordered by a thicker rim, consistent with the kind of working surface found on Egyptian palettes. There are linear grooves/raised lines within the recess that may reflect the palette’s decorative or functional carved areas. No clear carved hieroglyphs, cartouches, or legible text are visible. No identifiable deity iconography is clearly discernible from the limited fragment.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 35.1272 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3362 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.