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-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 carved limestone object with multiple holes and possible decorative patterns.
The artifact is a carved limestone object, oval in shape, featuring three holes. It has a textured surface with shallow decorative patterns, possibly depicting stylized elements. The central hole is larger and more prominent, which might indicate functional or symbolic significance.
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.