Vessel
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Graeco-Egyptian Caption: Graeco-Egyptian. Vessel, 30 B.C.E.–100 C.E.. Metal, 1 5/8 × 2 5/16 in. (4.1 × 5.8 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, 16.403.
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 small, ancient Egyptian lotus-shaped vessel.
The artifact is a lotus-shaped vessel, meticulously crafted with a focus on symmetrical floral motifs. The edges are softly contoured, resembling lotus petals, a common symbol in Egyptian art representing rebirth and creation. The craftsmanship suggests a utilitarian object designed for ritual or decorative use.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.403 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9655 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.