Papyrus Inscribed in Greek
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-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A framed, fragmentary sheet of ancient papyrus with a dense field of inked text across most of the visible surface.
The image shows a papyrus fragment mounted under a protective frame. The papyrus sheet is brown/tan with several missing or torn sections, including a small detached-looking area near the center-right. Dark ink lines and signs cover the surface in multiple horizontal/diagonal groupings, suggesting an inscribed text. No clearly identifiable royal cartouche or large formal headings are visible at this resolution. The text appears cursive/linear rather than carved-relief hieroglyphs; however, specific letterforms (Greek vs. Egyptian) cannot be confirmed confidently from the image alone. No explicit illustrations of deities are visible; the content appears text-only.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.617 tier-2
- BKM-Object 10106 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.