Brooklyn Wisdom Papyrus
Description
Caption: Brooklyn Wisdom Papyrus, late 6th century B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Overall: 7 7/8 × 52 1/8 in. (20 × 132.4 cm) a: Glass: 13 x 20 in. (33 x 50.8 cm) a: Object: 9 7/16 x 17 5/16 in. (24 x 44 cm) b: Glass: 13 x 20 in. (33 x 50.8 cm) b: Object: 9 1/16 x 19 11/16 in. (23 x 50 cm) c: Glass: 13 1/16 x 18 11/16 in. (33.2 x 47.5 cm) c: Object: 9 1/4 x 14 in. (23.5 x 35.5 cm) d: Glass: 13 x 14 15/16 in. (33 x 38 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 47.218.135a-e. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
The same text in other collections
Linked by shared inventory number
(ORAEC-id oraec28).
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- Brooklyner Weisheitstext / pBrooklyn 47.218.135 ORAEC text(unbestimmt)
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A horizontally mounted papyrus sheet filled with dense black-brown ink hieroglyphic/text lines, with several vertical and edge fragments. The text appears continuous across multiple joined pieces.
The image shows a papyrus document laid out against a light background, with the main body consisting of several darker, ink-written strips and missing/rough edges. Numerous lines of Egyptian script (hieroglyphs or closely related cursive forms) run in parallel rows across the sheet. Several small papyrus fragments are visible on the left and right edges, suggesting breakage and reattachment; there are also larger detached sections at the top and bottom. No clear figurative imagery, deity figures, or cartouches are visible at this resolution; only writing is prominent. The script is too dense and small to reliably extract specific sign names or read exact passages.
Cross-references (3)
- BKM-Accession 47.218.135a-e tier-2
- BKM-Object 60773 tier-2
- ORAEC-id oraec28 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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.