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Lamp with Elaborate Handle

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Description

Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Lamp with Elaborate Handle, 5th–6th century C.E.. Bronze, 1 5/8 x 3 3/8 in. (4.2 x 8.6 cm) Handle: 2 15/16 in. (7.5 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, 16.133. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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 bronze oil lamp with a long, elaborate handle/stand rising from one end, shown in profile on a light background.

The image depicts a small bronze lamp body shaped like a shallow bowl with a slightly raised rim around the top opening. On one end of the lamp there is a vertical, pierced/ornamented element resembling an elaborate handle, support, or spout extension. The central handle/extension is elongated and includes cutouts/openwork, with a curved, hook-like top. The bowl appears to have a thickened edge and a faintly domed surface where the wick opening sits. No clear hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. No deities or royal names/cartouches are identifiable from the visible ornamentation. Surface details suggest casting with weathering/patina consistent with an aged bronze object.

decorative Late Antique Period (per catalogue); specific date unclear from image alone good
Materials Bronze

Connections

Materials Bronze

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.133 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 9410 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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