Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · document
House Sale Late PeriodElephantine, Egypt
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Aramaic Caption: Aramaic. House Sale, December 12, 402 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, mud, a: Object: 12 15/16 × 24 5/8 in. (32.8 × 62.5 cm) a: Frame: 26 5/8 × 14 7/8 × 1 in. (67.6 × 37.8 × 2.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 47.218.94a-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
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.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Incursorive lines of Egyptian text in dark ink; specific excerpt not confidently readable from the provided image resolution.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 47.218.94a-b tier-2
- BKM-Object 60733 tier-2
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