Papyrus Inscribed in Greek
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Greek Caption: Greek. Papyrus Inscribed in Greek, 3rd century C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 6 x 8 1/16 in. (15.3 x 20.5 cm) Object: 2 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (7 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 47.218.53. (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 ancient papyrus with script.
This image depicts a fragmentary piece of papyrus with handwritten script. The text appears to be in Greek and shows signs of age, suggesting it comes from a later period in Egyptian history. The papyrus is mounted for preservation and has areas of significant deterioration, especially along the edges where bits are missing. The writing is in black ink and seems to contain several lines of text with varying character size.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 47.218.53 tier-2
- BKM-Object 60694 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.