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

Flask

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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-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, bulbous glass flask with a narrow neck and flared rim, photographed against a neutral background with a label bearing the number “16. 11/4”.

The image shows a compact glass vessel (catalogued as a “Flask”) with a globular body that tapers into a slender neck; the neck ends in a slightly widened, rounded rim. The glass appears translucent with a greenish tint typical of some ancient glass. No painted decoration, relief, or inscriptions are visible on the vessel’s surface. Beneath the flask is a rectangular white museum label with handwritten marking reading “16. 11/4” (exact formatting as shown). No Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text are visible on the artifact itself. No identifiable deity or royal name/cartouche is present.

photographic documentation Roman Period (per catalogue; vessel form is consistent but not diagnostic from image alone) good
Materials glass (translucent, greenish tint)

Connections

Materials Glass

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.114 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 9394 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.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.