Papyrus Fragment Inscribed in Demotic
Description
Caption: Papyrus Fragment Inscribed in Demotic, 305–30 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 6 5/16 x 7 1/2 in. (16 x 19 cm) Object: 2 5/16 x 3 7/8 in. (5.8 x 9.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 35.1211. (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 papyrus with visible inscriptions.
The artifact appears to be a small, rectangular fragment of papyrus, protected under glass. The color and texture suggest age, with several lines of text visible but partially deteriorated. The handwriting seems to follow a pattern consistent with ancient scripts.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 35.1211 tier-2
- BKM-Object 44831 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.