Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · papyrus
Writing Exercise Board
Description
Caption: Writing Exercise Board, 3rd or 4th century C.E.. Wood, pigment, 12 1/16 x 5 3/4 x 1/4 in. (30.6 x 14.6 x 0.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1724E. (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 slab with Greek inscriptions.
The artifact is a rectangular slab featuring several lines of Greek inscriptions. The text is carved into the stone and follows a consistent, linear format. The slab has a weathered appearance, suggesting age, but the inscriptions remain legible. A ruler is placed on the side for scale, indicating the item has been meticulously documented.
unclear
Ptolemaic
good
Materials
limestone
Visible text
"unknown"
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1724E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118248 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.
- 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.