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: 10 7/16 x 16 7/16 in. (26.5 x 41.7 cm) Object: 2 3/8 x 4 3/4 in. (6 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Theodora Wilbour, 35.1477. (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.
The image depicts several fragments of an ancient papyrus document.
The artifact consists of multiple papyrus fragments with visible text in a cursive style, indicating it might have been a casual or administrative document. The writing appears in black ink, and the condition of the papyrus is heavily deteriorated, with missing sections and frayed edges.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Signs
ankh ×2
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 35.1477 tier-2
- BKM-Object 45083 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.