Medical Text Inscribed in Hieratic
Description
Caption: Medical Text Inscribed in Hieratic, 664–525 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, e: Glass: 14 3/16 × 24 5/8 in. (36 × 62.5 cm) e: Largest Fragment: 9 3/4 × 21 9/16 in. (24.7 × 54.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 47.218.2a-g. (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.
The image depicts a papyrus with extensive hieratic script in black and red ink.
The artifact is a well-preserved papyrus featuring dense columns of hieratic text written in black ink with occasional use of red ink, possibly for headings or important sections. The papyrus shows wear and tear at the bottom, indicating age and use. The script is meticulously arranged, suggesting an administrative or literary document typical of ancient Egyptian writing styles.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 47.218.2a-g tier-2
- BKM-Object 60644 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.