Tag for Mummy of a Stonecutter, with Text in Greek and Demotic
Description
Caption: Tag for Mummy of a Stonecutter, with Text in Greek and Demotic, 30 B.C.E.–365 C.E.. Wood, ink, 2 7/16 x 4 x 1/2 in. (6.2 x 10.2 x 1.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1395E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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 wedge-shaped wooden tag inscribed with several lines of dark ink text in scripts that appear alphabetic/Greek-like and cursive/block-like marks.
The object is a small, wedge/leaf-shaped piece of light-colored wood with a rounded hole near one end, suggesting it may have been tied or attached to something. The surface is covered by a few horizontal/angled lines of dark ink. One line at the top includes characters that resemble Greek letters (e.g., a form similar to “υ”/“ρ” followed by additional letter-like symbols), while lower lines contain cursive or demotic-like strokes with dots and short vertical marks; however, the exact letters cannot be read reliably at this resolution. No clear Egyptian hieroglyphs or cartouches are visible. There are no depicted figures of deities or royalty—only text. No other materials besides the wood body and ink are clearly visible.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1395E tier-2
- BKM-Object 4149 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.