Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · document
Medical Text Inscribed in Hieratic Thebes, Egypt
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)
The same text in other collections
Linked by shared inventory number
(ORAEC-id oraec41).
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- 〈Papyrus Brooklyn 47.218.2 〉Geburtshilfe-Papyrus / Papyrus Brooklyn 47.218.2 ORAEC textElephantine
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Cross-references (3)
- BKM-Accession 47.218.2a-g tier-2
- BKM-Object 60644 tier-2
- ORAEC-id oraec41 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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