Lamp in the Form of a Boat
Description
Caption: Lamp in the Form of a Boat, 30 B.C.E.–395 C.E.. Terracotta, pigment, 7 5/16 x 3 3/16 x 2 11/16 in. (18.6 x 8.1 x 6.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1570E. (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 photographed ceramic/terracotta object shaped like a rounded boat-lamp form, heavily worn with remaining pale pigment on the surface.
The image shows a single small object photographed against a light background. The form is broadly boat-like, with a rounded body and a raised ridge/contour that could correspond to the boat’s hull or rim of the lamp. The surface is abraded and patchy, with remnants of light-toned pigment (likely the original painted decoration) visible in irregular areas. No clear lamp nozzle, handle, or wick housing is distinctly legible at this resolution, and there are no readable hieroglyphs or inscriptions present. No cartouches or royal names are visible. No identifiable deities are depicted in a way that can be confirmed from this image alone.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1570E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118095 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.