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

Papyrus Inscribed in Greek

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Description

Caption: Papyrus Inscribed in Greek, February 1 or February 2, 213–217 C.E.. Papyrus, pigment, Glass: 5 1/2 x 8 7/16 in. (14 x 21.5 cm) Object: 3 1/8 x 5 1/2 in. (8 x 14 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, 16.617. (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 fragment of an ancient papyrus with Greek writing.

The image depicts a fragmentary piece of papyrus containing Greek script. The text is arranged in horizontal lines and appears to be part of a larger document that is now incomplete. The papyrus shows signs of age, with frayed edges and missing sections. The writing is clear but partially faded.

hieroglyphic only Ptolemaic fragmentary
Materials papyrus

Connections

Found at Elephantine
Materials Papyrus

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.617 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 10106 tier-2
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