Bowl
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Egypto-Roman Caption: Egypto-Roman. Bowl, 4th century C.E.. Glass, 2 1/16 x 5 7/8 x 7 3/8 in. (5.2 x 15 x 18.7 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, 16.108.12. (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.
The image shows a shallow, circular bowl with a flared rim and a dark, pedestal-like base, photographed against a light background.
The object is centered in the frame and appears as a glass bowl with a smooth, glossy surface. The rim is thin and slightly raised, with a faint reflection line along the inner circumference. The bowl sits on a darker, thicker base that transitions from the underside of the bowl; the base has a rounded, pedestal profile. No painted decoration, inscriptions, or hieroglyphic text are visible on the surface in this view. The photograph does not show any identifiable cartouches, deities, or other iconography. The material appears consistent with glass due to the translucency and reflective highlights, though the exact transparency level and any color are limited by the grayscale image.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.108.12 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9376 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.