Bowl
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Egypto-Roman Caption: Egypto-Roman. Bowl, 4th century C.E.. Glass, 2 1/16 x Diam. 6 3/8 in. (5.3 x 16.2 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, 16.108.11. (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.
Photograph shows a shallow, circular glass bowl viewed from above/at a slight angle, with a clear rim and faint surface imperfections.
The image depicts a translucent, light-toned bowl with a wide, shallow profile. A thickened rim encircles the vessel, and the interior is mostly reflective, showing highlights and a darker curved reflection near the bottom interior. No painted decoration, inscriptions, or iconographic figures are visible on the bowl’s surface. The object appears intact but with small specks/blemishes consistent with age or wear; the photo does not show any identifiable hieroglyphs or text. The catalogue description as a glass bowl from the late Roman Period at Edfu is broadly consistent with the clear glass appearance, though the image provides no direct inscriptional or contextual evidence for the date/location.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.108.11 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9375 tier-2
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- 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.