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

Papyrus Inscribed in Greek

Source of record: Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Caption: Papyrus Inscribed in Greek, 4th century C.E.. Papyrus, ink, glass: 7 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (19 x 26 cm) papyrus: 3 3/8 x 6 1/8 in. (8.6 x 15.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.326. (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.

A fragmentary ancient Egyptian papyrus with handwritten text.

This artifact is a heavily deteriorated piece of papyrus with several lines of handwritten text. The writing appears to be done in dark ink, and the papyrus is mounted in a display frame. The text is fragmentary, and the overall condition suggests it may have been part of a larger document. The presence of color control patches indicates this is a professionally taken photograph, likely for documentation purposes.

hieroglyphic only Coptic fragmentary
Materials papyrus
Signs unknown ×10

Connections

Found at Egypt
Materials Papyrus

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.326 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 9582 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.