Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · vessel

Bowl

Source of record: Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Catalogue description: Culture Egypto-Roman Caption: Egypto-Roman. Bowl, 4th century C.E.. Glass, 2 9/16 x Diam. 5 15/16 in. (6.5 x 15.1 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, 16.108.3. (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 small, translucent greenish glass bowl with flared sides and a rounded foot, photographed against a plain background.

The image shows a single vessel centered in frame: an ovoid bowl form with a wide mouth, a slight inward taper toward the base, and a thickened, rounded foot. The glass appears light green to olive with translucency; no decoration, relief, or attached handles are visible. A small white label with handwritten or printed markings is present beneath the object, but no clear hieroglyphic/Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is readable on the artifact itself. No cartouches, royal titulary, or deity iconography are visible on the surface.

decorative late Roman Period (as catalogued) good
Materials glass

Connections

Found at Edfu
Materials Glass

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.108.3 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 9367 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.