Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · papyrus
Papyrus Fragment Inscribed in Greek
Description
Caption: Papyrus Fragment Inscribed in Greek, 6th century C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 4 15/16 x 7 5/16 in. (12.5 x 18.5 cm) Object: 3 1/8 x 5 3/8 in. (8 x 13.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Theodora Wilbour, 35.1472. (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.
Papyrus fragment with Greek text.
The artifact is a papyrus fragment containing Greek script, likely part of a larger document. The handwriting style suggests it may be from a legal or administrative text, common in the Ptolemaic to Roman periods. The papyrus is displayed against a light background, showing signs of age and wear.
hieroglyphic only
Ptolemaic
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Visible text
"Greek text visible but not transcribed here."
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 35.1472 tier-2
- BKM-Object 45078 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.