Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · papyrus

Papyrus Inscribed in Abnormal Hieratic

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Description

Caption: Papyrus Inscribed in Abnormal Hieratic, 664–525 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 8 11/16 x 14 3/16 in. (22 x 36 cm) Object: 7 1/16 x 9 1/8 in. (17.9 x 23.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1799E. (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.

Papyrus document with handwritten text.

This artifact is a fragmentary piece of papyrus featuring multiple lines of handwritten script. The text appears in dark ink, displaying cursive script which may belong to a semitic or Greek derivative. The papyrus is mounted against a backing for preservation and has visible signs of age and wear with frayed edges.

photographic documentation unknown fragmentary
Materials papyrus

Connections

Found at Thebes
Materials Papyrus

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.1799E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 118319 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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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.