Papyrus Inscribed in Demotic and Greek
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.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1803E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118323 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.