Papyrus Fragment Inscribed in Greek
Description
Caption: Papyrus Fragment Inscribed in Greek, 7th or 8th century C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 6 3/4 x 11 13/16 in. (17.2 x 30 cm) Object: 2 3/4 x 7 11/16 in. (7 x 19.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Theodora Wilbour, 35.1471. (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 fragment of ancient papyrus with handwritten inscriptions.
The artifact appears to be a small, rectangular fragment of papyrus. The writing is in black ink, likely composed with a reed pen. The text is arranged in several horizontal lines, indicating it may have been part of a more extensive document. The papyrus is mounted in a frame for preservation purposes.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 35.1471 tier-2
- BKM-Object 45077 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.