Papyrus Inscribed in Demotic and Greek
Description
Caption: Papyrus Inscribed in Demotic and Greek, February 15, 108 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 10 1/4 x 14 15/16 in. (26 x 38 cm) Object: 6 x 11 1/16 in. (15.3 x 28.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1796E. (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.
An ancient papyrus fragment with visible hieratic script.
This artifact is a piece of ancient papyrus featuring several lines of hieratic script written in black ink. The papyrus is fragmentary, with significant areas of loss and fraying edges. The script appears to be arranged in vertical columns typical of Egyptian administrative or literary texts. The state of the papyrus suggests it may have been a document or letter.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1796E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118316 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.