The Wilbour Papyrus
Description
Caption: The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 15 3/4 x 18 1/8 in. (40 x 46 cm) Object: 13 3/4 x 16 9/16 in. (35 x 42 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 406 11/16 in. (10.33 m). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.11. (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 papyrus with columns of Greek text.
The artifact is a papyrus fragment with multiple columns of Greek writing, indicative of a historical or literary document. The text is faded, and the papyrus shows significant signs of aging with rough, fragmented edges. The handwriting style suggests cursive Greek script, and the layout appears to be organized in densely packed lines. The papyrus has been mounted for preservation.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.11 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152128 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.