Stamped Bowl Fragment
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Stamped Bowl Fragment, 6th century C.E.. Clay, 3 5/8 x 3/8 x 4 in. (9.2 x 1 x 10.1 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, 16.154.2. (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 fragment of a terracotta bowl with a stamped/pressed decoration on the interior surface.
The image shows a single, roughly triangular/diamond-shaped ceramic fragment with worn edges. The surface is unglazed terracotta and bears a faint stamped motif near the lower center: a bordered shape with internal lines that may indicate a cartouche-like frame or a decorative stamp, though the exact sign forms are not fully legible. A few additional small impressions are visible but indistinct. No painted pigments, metallic elements, or other media are apparent beyond the clay body. There is no clearly readable Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text; any marks visible appear to be part of the stamp impressions rather than alphabetic writing. Overall the object is consistent with the catalogue description as a stamped bowl fragment from clay, though the specific hieroglyphic identification cannot be confirmed from the image resolution.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.154.2 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9430 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.
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