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

Tablet

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Description

Caption: Tablet, 4th century C.E.. Wood, 6 5/8 x 4 1/8 x 3/16 in. (16.8 x 10.5 x 0.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1915E. (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.

Wooden artifact possibly bearing worn inscriptions.

The object appears to be a rectangular wooden panel with a highly worn surface, likely suggesting the presence of inscriptions or traces of paint that have faded over time. The wear is consistent with an aged artifact, and the wooden composition indicates it might have been part of a larger structure or used as a writing board. The edges are somewhat frayed, and there is a noticeable hole or indentation near the lower part.

unclear unknown fragmentary
Materials wood

Connections

Found at Egypt
Materials Wood

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.1915E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 118420 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.
  • 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.