Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · papyrus
Writing Exercise Tablet
Description
Caption: Writing Exercise Tablet, 4th century C.E.. Wood, wax, 6 13/16 × 5 1/8 × 1/2 in. (17.3 × 13 × 1.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1909E.
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 writing tablet with a dark, inset surface.
The artifact is a rectangular wooden writing tablet with a dark, inset surface where writing would occur. The edges are framed in wood, showing signs of wear and age, with a label affixed to the bottom right corner. The inset appears to have been used for writing, possibly with wax.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
wood
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1909E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118414 tier-2
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