Lamp
Description
Caption: Lamp, 30 B.C.E.–100 C.E.. Terracotta, 3 3/4 × 1 × 5 in. (9.5 × 2.5 × 12.7 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, 16.311. (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 clay tablet depicting a sequence of human figures in relief.
The artifact is a clay or faience tablet with a row of figures in bas-relief, possibly representing a scene from daily life or a ceremonial event. The style is simplistic, with rudimentary detailing of human forms. There are six circular impressions below the scene, possibly for mounting or attachment purposes. Notable is the lack of intricate detailing, suggesting a utilitarian or common decorative purpose.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.311 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9569 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.