Papyrus Inscribed in Greek
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Greek Caption: Greek. Papyrus Inscribed in Greek, October 21, 137 C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 7 1/16 x 11 9/16 in. (18 x 29.3 cm) Object: 4 x 8 1/4 in. (10.1 x 21 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 47.218.52. (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.
An ancient papyrus fragment with handwritten script.
The image depicts a papyrus document with a relatively fine and orderly script. The papyrus is significantly deteriorated, with large portions missing or fragmented, revealing a repetitive style of horizontal lines of text. The visible writing appears to be in a cursive style typical of ancient documentary scripts.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 47.218.52 tier-2
- BKM-Object 60693 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.