Papyrus Inscribed in Demotic and Greek
Description
Caption: Papyrus Inscribed in Demotic and Greek, February 9, 108 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 10 7/16 x 17 in. (26.5 x 43.2 cm) Object: 6 5/8 x 13 5/8 in. (16.9 x 34.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1802E. (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 Egyptian papyrus with black ink inscriptions.
This artifact is a papyrus document featuring multiple lines of black ink inscriptions. The text appears to be organized in columns with clear, neat handwriting. The papyrus itself shows signs of age, with frayed edges and some missing fragments, indicating its fragility. The style and layout suggest it may be a form of administrative or literary text.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1802E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118322 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.