Stamped Dish Fragment
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Stamped Dish Fragment, 6th century C.E.. Clay, 5 11/16 x 1/4 x 5 15/16 in. (14.5 x 0.7 x 15.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.154.1. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with Index of Christian Art, Princeton University))
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 fragment of pottery with a carved cross and decorative arches.
The artifact is a pottery sherd with an etched cross, surrounded by curved decorative patterns resembling arches. The cross is centrally placed on the piece, while the surrounding motifs suggest decorative embellishments common in pottery pieces. The style is simple with incised lines that might suggest a symbolic or decorative use.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.154.1 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9429 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.