Cup
Description
Object Label: This cup comes from the burial of a woman named Nesikhonsu. She was the daughter of one high priest of the god Amun-Re, the Wife of another, and herself an important priestess of that deity. Caption: Cup, ca. 985–974 B.C.E.. Faience, 2 5/16 x Diam. 2 11/16 in. (5.9 x 6.9 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, 16.73. (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.
A small blue faience cup with a rectangular panel of painted/inscribed Egyptian-style markings on one side.
The object is a short, cylindrical conical cup with a flared rim and flat base. The surviving surface is predominantly blue, consistent with faience glazing, with small chips and dark speckling. On the front face there is a bordered rectangular cartouche-like frame containing dark, painted/engraved hieroglyph-like signs. The interior signs are not fully legible at this resolution, and no clear cartouches of a known king or determinatives can be confidently read. No other legible inscriptions, deities, or royal names are visible. The image shows no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.73 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3140 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.