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-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.
A vertical, fragmentary papyrus document densely covered with dark ink text in cursive script, consistent with an administrative legal record.
The image shows a sheet of papyrus (brown/tan) that is torn or cut with irregular edges, with only part of the document preserved. The surface is filled with tightly packed, horizontal lines of dark ink. The script appears to be a cursive form rather than carved hieroglyphs; individual letterforms are too small/blurry to confidently classify as Egyptian hieroglyphs versus demotic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic from this image alone. No clear illustrated figures, deities, or cartouches are visible; the content is text-only. A few small breaks/patches occur near the top and along the right/left borders. A separate mention of mud is not directly visible in the photograph; the background and substrate look like papyrus with ink, while any mud application is unclear. The catalogue’s stated materials (papyrus, ink, mud) generally fit the visible papyrus and ink; mud is not verifiably present in the image.
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.
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