Mold for a Lamp
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Mold for a Lamp, 5th century C.E.. Terracotta, 7/8 x 3 3/8 x 5 1/16 in. (2.3 x 8.5 x 12.8 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, 16.284. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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 simple, undecorated pottery bowl.
The artifact is an elongated pottery bowl with a plain, smooth surface and an earthy, reddish-brown color. It is oval-shaped with a slightly curved rim. The bowl is utilitarian in nature and lacks any decorative elements or inscriptions.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.284 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9542 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.