Papyrus Inscribed in Demotic
Description
Caption: Papyrus Inscribed in Demotic, 4th–3rd century B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 14 x 17 15/16 in. (35.5 x 45.6 cm) Largest Piece: 6 7/8 x 13 7/16 in. (17.4 x 34.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.2005E. (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 fragmentary papyrus with hieratic writing, likely a document or letter.
The image depicts a heavily fragmented papyrus with numerous pieces missing. The content appears to be written in a cursive form typical of hieratic script, primarily used for administrative and literary texts. The fragments are laid out on a neutral background, and some parts show clustering that suggests attempts to piece them together.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.2005E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118505 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.