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

Bowl

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Description

Catalogue description: Culture Egypto-Roman Caption: Egypto-Roman. Bowl, 4th century C.E.. Glass, 3 1/16 x Diam. 4 11/16 in. (7.7 x 11.9 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, 16.108.17. (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, circular glass bowl viewed from above, with a dark central base area and a shallow rim; surface shows reflections and wear.

The image shows a shallow, round vessel photographed on a neutral background. The bowl’s rim forms a clear circular boundary, and the interior is dominated by a reflective gold-toned appearance from photographic/metallic backing or decoration. A darker central circular feature at the bottom (likely the base or a central boss/disc) is visible. There is no legible decorative program or figure visible on the bowl’s interior surface at this resolution. Below the bowl, a small white museum label card with handwritten text is present; the characters are not reliably readable in the image. No hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text appears on the object itself.

decorative Late Roman Period (per catalogue ground truth) good
Materials Glass

Connections

Found at Edfu
Materials Glass

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.108.17 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 9381 tier-2
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