Bowl
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Egypto-Roman Caption: Egypto-Roman. Bowl, 4th century C.E.. Glass, 2 1/16 x Diam. 3 9/16 in. (5.2 x 9.1 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, 16.108.7. (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, dark glass bowl with a rounded exterior and a wide rim, photographed against a light background.
The image shows a single vessel centered in frame. It has a thick, dark/black-looking translucent body with a flared, rounded rim and a narrow, pedestal-like base. The surface appears smooth and unpainted; no painted decoration or relief is visible. The rim interior is lighter and reflective, consistent with transparency/shine typical of glass. No hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible anywhere on the bowl. No cartouches or royal names are present, and no deities are depicted. Overall the object is intact and appears well-preserved, though minor surface imperfections/specks are visible in the photograph.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.108.7 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9371 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.