Papyrus Fragment Inscribed in Greek
Description
Caption: Papyrus Fragment Inscribed in Greek, 6th century C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 5 1/8 x 7 7/8 in. (13 x 20 cm) Object: 3 3/8 x 6 1/8 in. (8.5 x 15.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1838E. (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 fragment of inscribed papyrus with dense handwritten text in ink, written in a cursive script that appears Greek-like.
The image shows a rectangular papyrus fragment mounted in a modern display frame, with edges irregular and surface showing age-related discoloration and folding/creasing. Across the fragment is a block of continuous, closely spaced handwriting in dark ink lines forming a script consistent with a late Greek cursive hand (non-hieroglyphic). No clear Egyptian hieroglyphs or legible cartouches are visible. No figural scenes, deity names, or royal titulary are clearly identifiable at this resolution. A ruler scale alongside the frame indicates the fragment’s measured size. There is no visible Greek/Arabic/Coptic text rendered digitally beyond the handwritten inscription itself; however, individual characters are not fully legible for transcription.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1838E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118353 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.