Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · papyrus

Illustrated Papyrus Early Ptolemaic PeriodMemphis

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.1647Ea3. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 37.1647Ea3
Find spot: Memphis, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Early Ptolemaic Period
Date: 305–30 B.C.E.
Date range: 305 BCE – 30 BCE
Materials: ['Papyrus', 'pigment', 'ink']
Height: 35.4 cm
Width: 30.3 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Illustrated Papyrus (37.1647Ea3). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18159

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Caption: Illustrated Papyrus, 305–30 B.C.E.. Papyrus, pigment, ink, 13 15/16 × 11 15/16 × 15/16 in. (35.4 × 30.3 × 2.4 cm) mount: 18 × 14 × 1 in. (45.7 × 35.6 × 2.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1647Ea3. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.

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Found at Memphis

Materials Ink Papyrus Pigment

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1647Ea3 tier-2
BKM-Object 224474 tier-2

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