Very Shallow Dish
Description
Caption: Very Shallow Dish, ca. 150–30 B.C.E.. Glass, 9/16 x diam. 1 7/8 in. (1.4 x 4.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1653E. (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.
The image shows a small, very shallow, dark blue-green glass dish or shallow vessel photographed on a light gray background. A separate paper label with handwritten numbers is visible below the object.
A rounded, very shallow dish with a slightly raised rim is centered in the frame. The surface appears dark blue-green with a glossy sheen, suggesting a translucent glass body; no clear painted decoration, relief work, or inscriptions are visible on the vessel itself. Lighting creates a soft highlight along the rim and a darker band across the center. Below the dish is a rectangular pale label with handwritten black ink text that appears to read as an accession or inventory number (stylized as “37.1653E” or similar). No hieroglyphic, Greek, or Coptic text appears on the artifact; only the handwritten modern label is present. There are no legible cartouches, royal titles, or deity iconography visible.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1653E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118177 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.