Lamp
Description
Caption: Lamp, 2nd–3rd century C.E.. Terracotta, 3 1/4 x 1 7/8 x 4 9/16 in. (8.2 x 4.8 x 11.6 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, 16.309. (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.
A fragment of an Egyptian artifact with a rough surface and some faint details.
The artifact fragment appears to be made of a coarse material, possibly limestone or a similar stone. It has a cylindrical shape with some visible markings and indentations, suggesting it might have been part of a larger sculpture or structure. The surface has eroded, making it difficult to identify specific carvings or inscriptions. The overall composition points to it possibly being a part of decorative or functional architecture.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.309 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9567 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.