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Ananiah Gives Yehoishema a House

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 47.218.88. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 47.218.88
Find spot: Elephantine, Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Persian Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 28
Date: March 10, 402 B.C.E.
Date range: 402 BCE – 402 BCE
Materials: ['Papyrus', 'ink', 'mud', 'linen']
Height: 39.1 cm
Width: 49.5 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Ananiah Gives Yehoishema a House (47.218.88). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18258

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Catalogue description: Culture Aramaic Caption: Aramaic. Ananiah Gives Yehoishema a House, March 10, 402 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, mud, linen, Glass: 15 3/8 x 19 1/2 in. (39.1 x 49.5 cm) Object: 12 1/2 x 16 3/4 in. (31.7 x 42.5 cm) Seal: 7/8 × 3/8 × 1 in. (2.3 × 0.9 × 2.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 47.218.88. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

The image shows a rectangular, faded papyrus sheet filled with lines of dark ink writing across most of its surface; the top and right edges are damaged and the papyrus is unevenly browned.

A single papyrus fragment is photographed flat against a light background. The upper portion contains fewer, lighter marks while the main writing field occupies the lower two-thirds in multiple horizontal lines. The ink script appears cursive and non-hieroglyphic (no clearly legible Egyptian hieroglyph blocks or cartouches are visible at this resolution). There are visible paper-fiber/papyrus strips beneath the writing, and the fragment shows slight tears/edge loss on the right side and overall age-browning and abrasion.

hieroglyphic only Persian Period (per catalogue; script not clearly identifiable in the image) poor

Materials Papyrusink

Signs Non-hieroglyphic cursive text lines (likely Aramaic/Hebrew) ×30

Visible text "Inscription is present throughout the lower writing field; individual characters are not reliably legible from this image for an accurate excerpt."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Inscription is present throughout the lower writing field; individual characters are not reliably legible from this image for an accurate excerpt.

Connections

Found at Elephantine

Materials Ink Papyrus

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 47.218.88 tier-2
BKM-Object 60728 tier-2

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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.