The Wilbour Papyrus
Description
Caption: The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 16 15/16 x 18 1/8 in. (43 x 46 cm) Object: 15 3/16 x 16 15/16 in. (38.5 x 43 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 406 11/16 in. (10.33 m). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.27. (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 fragment with columns of hieratic text.
The image depicts a papyrus document showing multiple columns of densely written hieratic script, likely a form of record keeping or literature. The papyrus is aged and fragile with sections missing, revealing a rectilinear layout typical of documents from administrative or scholarly contexts. The ink used is dark against the light brown papyrus background, indicating careful composition in the format common to later Egyptian periods.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.27 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152144 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.
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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.