Bowl
Description
Object Label: The image on one of these bowls depicts a monkey playing a double flute. Representations of animals engaged in human activities occur throughout Egyptian history. The other bowl shows a female figure and flowering plants. This motif may be borrowed from scenes on the walls of painted tombs. Caption: Bowl, ca. 1295–1185 B.C.E.. Faience, 13/16 × Diam. 3 1/2 in. (2 × 8.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 66.172. (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.
Photograph of a small, round ancient Egyptian faience bowl viewed from above, with dark blue/green glazing and worn decorative markings on the interior base.
The object appears to be a shallow, circular bowl with a thick blue-green glazed surface. The interior bottom contains worn, dark and lighter areas forming a central motif that may be related to hieroglyphic or figurative decoration, but the individual signs are too abraded to read reliably. No clearly legible royal titulary, names, or distinct cartouches can be confirmed. There is no visible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text. Lighting and age-related wear obscure fine details, and any inscription is therefore recorded as present only in a highly uncertain manner.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 66.172 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3751 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.