Property Transfer Document: Ananiah Gives Yehoishema Another Part of the House
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Aramaic Caption: Aramaic. Property Transfer Document: Ananiah Gives Yehoishema Another Part of the House, November 25 or November 26, 404 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, mud, Object: 28 11/16 × 12 3/8 in. (72.9 × 31.5 cm) Frame: 30 5/16 × 15 5/16 in. (77 × 38.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 47.218.92. (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 papyrus sheet with faded ink inscriptions, primarily horizontal lines.
This artifact appears to be a papyrus sheet containing faded inscriptions, written in horizontal lines across the surface. The writing is faint and some lines are barely visible, suggesting age and wear. The artifact is carefully mounted, indicating its preservation efforts. Notable features include the texture of the papyrus and its standardized size, with visible measuring markers alongside.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 47.218.92 tier-2
- BKM-Object 60731 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.