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)
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
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 long strip of papyrus covered with tightly written hieratic cursive text in multiple lines, arranged in blocks separated by horizontal divisions and with jagged, damaged edges along the bottom.
The image shows an elongated, fragmentary papyrus document laid flat, with the sheet curling and torn along the sides and especially at the lower edge. Dense hieratic writing fills the visible surface in dark ink, with horizontal line groupings and paragraph-like breaks. Some portions are missing or obscured by tears, creating irregular gaps. No figural decoration, cartouches, or clear iconographic elements are visible; the content appears purely textual. There is no clearly legible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text in the image. The surviving writing is consistent with a Late Period medical/ritual papyrus format, though individual sign identification is not reliably possible at this resolution.
Cross-references (3)
- BKM-Accession 47.218.2a-g tier-2
- BKM-Object 60644 tier-2
- ORAEC-id oraec41 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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.