Lamp Handle
Description
Caption: Lamp Handle, 30 B.C.E.–395 C.E.. Bronze, 2 1/4 x 2 7/8 in. (5.7 x 7.3 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, 16.247. (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 fragment of a blue glazed faience artifact resembling a grape bunch.
This artifact is a fragment of ancient Egyptian faience, skillfully crafted to resemble a luscious bunch of grapes. The surface bears a vibrant blue glaze, indicative of the faience technique that involves a self-glazing process. Some remnants of red and black painted details are visible within the concave areas, possibly for added realism or symbolic purposes. The style and color suggest it might have been a decorative or votive object, often used in offering scenes or as a symbol of fertility and abundance.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.247 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9508 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.