Papyrus Fragments Inscribed with Text Written in Pahlavi
Description
Caption: Papyrus Fragments Inscribed with Text Written in Pahlavi, 1st millennium B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 10 13/16 x 15 9/16 in. (27.5 x 39.5 cm) Largest Fragment: 11 13/16 x 12 5/16 in. (30 x 31.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Theodora Wilbour, 35.1452. (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 with hieratic inscriptions.
The image depicts a damaged piece of papyrus with hieratic script written in black ink. The composition consists of several dispersed pieces, with a main large fragment and several smaller ones. The script appears to be written in vertical columns and the condition of the papyrus suggests significant age and wear, with frayed and missing sections.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 35.1452 tier-2
- BKM-Object 45058 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.
- 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.