Papyrus Inscribed in Greek and Latin
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Greek Caption: Greek. Papyrus Inscribed in Greek and Latin, 169 C.E. or later. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 6 x 6 9/16 in. (15.3 x 16.7 cm) Object: 3 1/16 x 3 3/8 in. (7.7 x 8.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 47.218.54. (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 small, fragmentary sheet of papyrus preserved in a protective display mount, with multiple lines of dark ink writing across the fragment.
The image shows a papyrus fragment lying centrally in a sealed/encapsulated frame. The fragment is irregularly torn and missing portions, with visible dark ink lines running horizontally in several registers. The ink marks appear alphabetic (non-hieroglyphic) and are too fragmentary to read confidently from this image resolution. No clear cartouches or royal names are visible. No deity figures are depicted—only text. A handwritten catalog/label-style number in red is visible at the bottom right of the mount, but it is not clearly identifiable as museum text versus the photograph overlay. No Greek, Latin, Coptic, or Arabic text can be transcribed with certainty from the provided image; the script type is unclear though consistent with inscriptional text. Materials visible include the papyrus support and dark ink; the mounting includes a metallic/foil border and glass/plastic cover.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 47.218.54 tier-2
- BKM-Object 60695 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.