Property Sale Document: Bagazust and Ubil Sell a House to Ananiah
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Aramaic Caption: Aramaic. Property Sale Document: Bagazust and Ubil Sell a House to Ananiah, September 14, 437 B.C.E. (date written). Papyrus, ink, mud, b: Object: 11 13/16 × 31 5/8 in. (30 × 80.4 cm) b: Frame: 14 15/16 × 34 3/4 in. (38 × 88.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 47.218.95a-b. (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 document covered in handwritten text.
The image shows a papyrus sheet densely covered with handwritten text in black ink. The writing is structured in horizontal lines filling nearly the entire visible area of the papyrus. The script appears cursive and is possibly written in a script indicative of administrative or literary use. The condition of the papyrus seems fragmentary, with edges appearing irregular and some text possibly missing or damaged.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 47.218.95a-b tier-2
- BKM-Object 60734 tier-2
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- 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.