Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · vessel

Inscribed Phiale

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Description

Caption: Inscribed Phiale, ca. 410 B.C.E.. Silver, 7/8 x Diam. 6 1/4 in. (2.3 x 15.8 cm) Weight: 150.3 grams(8/3/2011). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 54.50.34. (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 silver bowl with a decorative rim and inscriptions near the edge.

The silver bowl features a central raised circular motif surrounded by petal-like designs. The rim is decorated with a series of repeating decorative elements. Inscriptions, likely ancient, are etched along the outer edge of the bowl. The bowl exhibits notable craftsmanship typical of ancient metalwork.

decorative unknown fragmentary
Materials silver
Signs unknown script ×15
Visible text "unknown script"

Connections

Materials Silver

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 54.50.34 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 67986 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.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.