Papyrus Inscribed in Hieratic
Description
Caption: Papyrus Inscribed in Hieratic, ca. 991–982 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, 9 1/16 x 35 1/16 in. (23 x 89 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.205. (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.
An ancient Egyptian papyrus with columns of hieratic text.
The image depicts a fragmentary papyrus with multiple columns of hieratic script. The text appears in vertical columns, typical of Egyptian documents. The quality of the papyrus is poor with visible tears and missing sections. The script is slightly faded but remains largely legible.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.205 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9472 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.