Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · papyrus
Illustrated Papyrus Early Ptolemaic PeriodMemphis
Description
Object Label: Because papyrus was a costly material, it was normally reserved for important documents such as administrative records and funerary literature. For the same reason, talented artists usually drew the illustrations. This crudely drawn parade of important Egyptian deities is therefore quite surprising. Caption: Illustrated Papyrus, 4th–3rd century B.C.E.. Papyrus, pigment, ink, 37.1647Ea1: 13 9/16 × 6 9/16 in. (34.5 × 16.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1647Ea1. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1647Ea1 tier-2
- BKM-Object 4174 tier-2
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