Papyrus Inscribed in Demotic
Description
Caption: Papyrus Inscribed in Demotic, ca. 205 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 12 11/16 x 34 1/8 in. (32.3 x 86.7 cm) Object: 9 3/16 x 31 3/16 in. (23.4 x 79.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1781E. (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.
A fragmentary piece of ancient papyrus with lines of text.
The image shows a torn and fragmentary piece of papyrus covered with densely written lines in a script that appears to be ancient. The papyrus is darkened and worn, with several areas of loss and fraying along the edges. The text is arranged in horizontal lines across the surface. The style suggests an ancient document, possibly from an administrative or literary context.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1781E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118301 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.