Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · papyrus
Papyrus Inscribed in Greek
Description
Caption: Papyrus Inscribed in Greek, April 20, 206 C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 5 1/16 x 7 in. (12.9 x 17.8 cm) Object: 1 1/4 x 4 in. (3.1 x 10.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 47.218.23. (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.
Ancient papyrus fragment with Greek text.
The image depicts a fragmentary piece of papyrus with visible inscriptions in Greek script. The writing appears in dark ink on the papyrus, showing horizontal lines of text typical of document format. The edges are worn, and there is some damage consistent with age.
hieroglyphic only
Ptolemaic
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Visible text
"unknown"
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 47.218.23 tier-2
- BKM-Object 60665 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.