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

Dish

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Description

Catalogue description: Cultures Greek, Attic Caption: Greek; Attic. Dish, 4th century B.C.E.. Clay, slip, 2 1/16 × 4 9/16 × 6 9/16 in. (5.3 × 11.6 × 16.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Society, 12.911.10. (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 round bowl/dish with a dark glossy slip finish and two small projecting handles/hooks on opposite sides.

The object is a disk-like ceramic dish with a circular rim and a dark, polished-looking interior. Two opposing small handles/loops appear attached near the left and right sides of the rim (suggesting suspension or grasping). The center of the interior has a small pale circular mark and faint surface irregularities, but no clear decorative iconography is visible. No legible hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is apparent in the image. Overall form and surface appearance are consistent with a clay vessel coated with slip, matching the catalogue’s subject as a dish. The exact date/period cannot be securely determined from this single view.

daily life unclear good
Materials Clayslip

Connections

Found at Abydos
Materials ClayCeramicSlip

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 12.911.10 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 6856 tier-2
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