Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · papyrus

Papyrus Inscribed in Demotic and Greek

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Description

Caption: Papyrus Inscribed in Demotic and Greek, February 8, 108 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 14 x 16 15/16 in. (35.5 x 43 cm) Object: 9 15/16 x 13 3/16 in. (25.2 x 33.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1803E. (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 papyrus document with extensive hieratic text.

The image depicts a fragmentary piece of papyrus covered with lines of black ink written in the hieratic script, which is a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The text is arranged in horizontal lines with some visible damage and missing sections. The writing appears orderly, suggesting it was an important document or manuscript from its time.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials papyrus

Connections

Found at Memphis
Materials Papyrus

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.1803E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 118323 tier-2
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