Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · other
Small Lamp
Description
Caption: Small Lamp, 30 B.C.E.–642 C.E.. Clay, 4 1/16 x 3 1/4 x 1 15/16 in. (10.3 x 8.2 x 5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1563E. (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 stone artifact with prominent carved symbols including triangles and possible hieroglyphs.
The artifact is an oval-shaped stone with carved figures that include triangles and what appears to be some form of early script or symbols. The carvings are deeply incised, suggesting intentional and significant markings. The stone appears well-preserved, indicating careful crafting or historical value.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Signs
triangle ×2
unknown symbol
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1563E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118088 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.
- 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.