Ampulla of St. Menas
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Ampulla of St. Menas, 5th–7th century C.E.. Terracotta, Length: 3 1/8 in. (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, 16.164. (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 round artifact with two handles and inscriptions on one side.
The artifact is a circular object resembling a bottle or container with two looped handles on either side. The surface of one side is inscribed with an arrangement of Greek letters, suggesting it may function as a seal or medallion. The surface is worn but the relief of the inscriptions is still visible, indicating it was crafted with skill typical of ancient techniques.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.164 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9440 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.