The Wilbour Papyrus
Description
Caption: The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 13 3/4 x 18 1/8 in. (35 x 46 cm) Object: 12 3/8 x 16 15/16 in. (31.5 x 43 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 406 11/16 in. (10.33 m). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.19. (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 document with columns of hieratic script.
The image shows a papyrus covered in vertical columns of cursive hieratic script, indicating a text of administrative or literary nature. The composition is dense, with distinct sections separated into manageable portions of text, likely for organizational purposes. The papyrus is heavily fragmented, with significant portions missing at the edges.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.19 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152136 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.