Bowl
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Egypto-Roman Caption: Egypto-Roman. Bowl, 4th century C.E.. Glass, 2 3/8 x Diam. 3 11/16 in. (6.1 x 9.3 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, 16.108.20. (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 of a small, transparent glass bowl on a short pedestal, with a flared rim and amber-tinted glass body.
The image shows a single vessel photographed against a neutral light background. The object has a shallow, outward-curving bowl with a thickened, rounded rim. It rests on a short, central pedestal base that flares slightly outward at the bottom. The glass appears translucent/clear with an amber or yellow-green tint, and light reflections are visible on the surface. No sculpted decoration, inscriptions, or cartouches are visible on the vessel. A handwritten label is present in the scene on the lower portion of the image, but it is not readable with confidence. The visible metal-like sheen on some highlights appears to be optical reflection rather than applied decoration. No clear hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is legible on the artifact itself.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.108.20 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9384 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.