Flask
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Egypto-Roman Caption: Egypto-Roman. Flask, 3rd–4th century C.E.. Glass, 1 7/8 x Diam. 1 in. (4.8 x 2.6 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, 16.114. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
Small glass flask with a rounded body and narrow neck.
The artifact is a small, translucent glass flask featuring a rounded body with a subtle bulbous shape and a narrow neck that widens slightly at the top. There are no visible inscriptions or decorative motifs on the surface. The flask's simplistic form suggests utilitarian use, possibly for holding liquids such as oils or perfumes.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.114 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9394 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.