Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · papyrus
Writing Exercise Tablet
Description
Caption: Writing Exercise Tablet, 4th century C.E.. Wood, wax, 6 3/4 x 5 3/16 x 1/4 in. (17.2 x 13.1 x 0.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1908E.
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 wooden tablet with a painted surface.
The artifact is a rectangular wooden tablet with a worn painted surface, revealing traces of red hues. The edges are slightly raised with two drilled holes on the right side, suggesting it may have been part of a larger assembly or used in a binding. The paint wear indicates significant age.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
wood
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1908E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118413 tier-2
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