The Wilbour Papyrus
Description
Caption: The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 18 1/8 x 18 7/8 in. (46 x 48 cm) Object: 16 15/16 x 17 15/16 in. (43 x 45.5 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 406 11/16 in. (10.33 m). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.23. (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 dense hieratic script.
The artifact is a papyrus document covered in extensive hieratic script, a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphs used for writing religious texts and administrative documents. The papyrus is aged, showing signs of wear, fragility, and some missing sections, typical of ancient documents. The text is organized into neat columns and rows.
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Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.23 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152140 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.