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-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.
An ancient Egyptian ostracon with a circular impressed design.
The image depicts a fragment of pottery, known as an ostracon, with a circular impressed design that might have been used as a stamp or seal. The surface is reddish-brown, characteristic of Nile silt pottery. The design is symmetrical and could be purely decorative or indicative of ownership or content.
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.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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