The Wilbour Papyrus
Description
Caption: The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 13 x 18 1/8 in. (33 x 46 cm) Object: 11 1/8 x 16 3/4 in. (28.2 x 42.5 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 406 11/16 in. (10.33 m). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.20. (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 papyrus document with densely written inscriptions in two columns.
This image depicts an ancient papyrus manuscript featuring two columns of cursive script. The text is inscribed in black ink on a light brown papyrus sheet, which is heavily fragmented with notable patches missing. The columnar arrangement and handwriting style suggest it might be a documentary or administrative text. Despite the damage, the text remains largely legible in many areas.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.20 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152137 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.