Conical Jar
Description
Caption: Conical Jar, 305 B.C.E.–395 C.E.. Clay, 5 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (13.9 x 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, 16.748.5. (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.
An ancient Egyptian pottery vessel with a narrow neck and bulbous body.
The image depicts an ancient Egyptian pottery vessel characterized by its narrow neck, flaring rim, and bulbous body. The vessel appears to be made from reddish-brown clay and exhibits a smooth texture with subtle markings on its surface, likely from manufacturing or usage. Its form suggests it may have been used for storing liquids.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.748.5 tier-2
- BKM-Object 10242 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.