Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · papyrus

Papyrus Fragment Inscribed in Greek

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Description

Caption: Papyrus Fragment Inscribed in Greek, 6th century C.E. (possibly). Papyrus, ink, Glass: 5 x 7 1/16 in. (12.7 x 18 cm) Object: 13/16 x 7/8 in. (2.1 x 2.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Theodora Wilbour, 35.1449.3. (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.

A framed papyrus fragment with a small, light-brown/amber patch bearing faint ink marks, photographed against a pale gray background.

The image shows an object mounted behind glass or within a frame. Most of the frame is empty gray field; only two small papyrus fragments/patches are visible: one central-left patch with several dark ink strokes that may form partial characters, and another smaller area at the lower left where the fragment edges are not clearly readable. A museum accession label reading “35.1449.3” appears near the lower left of the frame. No clear Greek letters, Coptic, Arabic, or Egyptian hieroglyphs are legible at this resolution; the ink marks are too indistinct to identify specific characters or a script. A color calibration strip and a scale ruler are present at the right edge for photography/measurement, not part of the artifact. Condition appears fragmentary due to the small, incomplete papyrus piece(s).

photographic documentation Late Antique Period (per catalogue; script not clearly legible in the image) fragmentary
Materials papyrus (fragment/patch)ink (faint, unconfirmed script)
Signs Unclear partial ink strokes (script not legible)

Connections

Materials Papyrus

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 35.1449.3 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 152115 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.