Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · papyrus
Papyrus Fragment Inscribed in Greek Byzantine PeriodEgypt
Description
Caption: Papyrus Fragment Inscribed in Greek, 7th or 8th century C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 10 13/16 x 13 9/16 in. (27.5 x 34.5 cm) Fragment: 5 1/8 x 6 7/8 in. (13 x 17.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Theodora Wilbour, 35.1469. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
No reliable excerpt can be transcribed from the image due to low legibility/overlap; writing is present in multiple lines.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 35.1469 tier-2
- BKM-Object 45075 tier-2
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- 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.