Property Transfer Document: Ananiah Gives Tamut Part of a House
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Aramaic Caption: Aramaic. Property Transfer Document: Ananiah Gives Tamut Part of a House, October 30, 434 B.C.E. (date written). Papyrus, ink, mud, b: Object: 11 3/16 × 22 3/8 in. (28.4 × 56.9 cm) b: Frame: 25 15/16 × 14 3/4 in. (65.9 × 37.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 47.218.91a-b. (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 vertically oriented papyrus sheet covered with dense lines of handwritten script in black/brown ink, with no clear carved relief or illustrated figures.
A rectangular papyrus document is photographed flat, with uneven edges and areas of missing material along the top and left margins. The surface is filled with tightly spaced horizontal lines of writing. The script is not obviously rendered as standard Egyptian hieroglyphs; instead it appears as an inked alphabetic/linear cursive text with diacritics-like marks, consistent with a non-hieroglyphic document format, but the specific language/script cannot be confidently identified from this image alone. No distinct Greek/Coptic/Arabic letter forms can be confirmed. No cartouches or royal names are clearly legible, and no deity iconography is visible. Small ink blotches and patchy losses are present, typical of aged papyrus. Overall, the artifact is consistent in general appearance with an inked papyrus property/document text, though the exact proper names (e.g., Ananiah, Tamut) and any Egyptian religious content are not clearly readable at this resolution.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 47.218.91a-b tier-2
- BKM-Object 60730 tier-2
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- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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