Illustrated Papyrus
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-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.
Depiction of two figures with symbolic objects, one wearing a sun disk on the head.
The artifact shows two standing figures adorned with traditional Egyptian attire and symbolic accessories. The figure on the left wears a headdress with a sun disk, often associated with deities, and both figures hold an ankh, symbolizing life. The image is painted on a papyrus fragment with notable deterioration.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1647Ea1 tier-2
- BKM-Object 4174 tier-2
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- 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.