The Wilbour Papyrus
Description
Caption: The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 13 3/8 x 18 1/8 in. (34 x 46 cm) Largest Fragment: 4 9/16 x 7 13/16 in. (11.6 x 19.8 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 406 11/16 in. (10.33 m). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.2. (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.
Fragmentary papyrus with lines of handwritten text.
The image depicts several fragments of ancient papyrus, arranged on a modern mount. The text is handwritten, likely with ink, and consists of lines of script, possibly in a Greek or Coptic style given the appearance of the characters. The fragments show signs of wear and age, with some tears and missing sections. The background appears to be a contemporary archival mount intended for preservation and study.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.2 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152119 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.
- 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.