Lamp with Inscription on Base
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Lamp with Inscription on Base, 5th–6th century C.E.. Terracotta, 1 9/16 × 2 1/2 × 3 7/16 in. (4 × 6.3 × 8.8 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, 16.153. (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.
Terracotta lamp viewed from above showing a central filling hole and a perforation near one edge, with worn/raised decoration around the center.
The image shows a circular terracotta object likely intended as a small oil lamp. In the center there is a round perforation (filling/feeding hole). A second small opening/perforation appears on the lower side of the lamp. Around the central area the surface has molded or worn relief patterns resembling clustered dots or a stippled/rosette-like motif. The remainder of the exterior is plain to lightly textured, and details of any inscription are not clearly legible in this photo. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. If there are hieroglyphic characters on the base, they are too indistinct to read from the provided image.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.153 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9428 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.