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Stamped Dish Fragment

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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-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 reddish clay fragment with a wide, shallow curved surface and traces of stamped/inscribed decoration forming curved bands and small motifs.

The image shows a broken fragment of a vessel, likely the rim/upper body of a dish. The surface is reddish-orange clay with weathering. Along part of the fragment there are visible curving decorative bands, and within/near them faint lighter marks that could be small stamped motifs or shallow incisions. No distinct fully legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or names are clearly identifiable from the photo. No painted pigment, metal, or glaze is clearly visible beyond the clay color and surface wear. The background is plain white and the object is photographed from above/at an angle; no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.

decorative Late Antique Period (as catalogued); visual style is consistent with stamped/relief decoration but too faint to refine further. fragmentary
Materials Clay (reddish terracotta)

Connections

Materials ClayTerracotta

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.154.1 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 9429 tier-2
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