Papyrus Inscribed in Demotic
Description
Caption: Papyrus Inscribed in Demotic, 201–200 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, 37.1839Ea: 11 5/16 x 40 3/8 in. (28.8 x 102.5 cm) 37.1839Eb: 11 5/16 x 41 13/16 in. (28.8 x 106.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1839Ea-b. (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 text.
The artifact is a papyrus fragment displaying several horizontal lines of text in a black script. The papyrus appears aged and worn, with frayed edges and surface degradation, indicating significant antiquity. The text, written in a coherent fashion, suggests a formal purpose such as a document or letter.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1839Ea-b tier-2
- BKM-Object 118354 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.