Royal Book of Protection
Description
Caption: Royal Book of Protection, 664–610 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, b: Glass: 12 3/16 × 19 7/8 in. (31 × 50.5 cm) b: Object: 8 1/4 × 15 1/16 in. (21 × 38.2 cm) d: Glass: 12 1/16 × 19 15/16 in. (30.7 × 50.6 cm) d: Object: 8 7/16 × 14 15/16 in. (21.5 × 38 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 47.218.49a-f. (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 fragmentary papyrus scroll with several lines of hieratic script.
The artifact is a rectangular fragment of ancient papyrus, showing multiple lines of hieratic writing. The text is written in dark ink on a light brown papyrus background. The overall condition is fragmentary, with significant portions of the papyrus missing, evident from the irregular edges and gaps within the body of the text. The style is consistent with manuscript documentation from the New Kingdom period, characterized by the flowing cursive script used for administrative and literary purposes.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 47.218.49a-f tier-2
- BKM-Object 60691 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.