The Wilbour Papyrus
Description
Caption: The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 11 13/16 x 18 1/8 in. (30 x 46 cm) Object: 10 1/4 x 16 3/8 in. (26 x 41.6 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 406 11/16 in. (10.33 m). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.12. (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 ancient papyrus with handwritten hieratic text.
The image shows a papyrus sheet with dense columns of handwritten hieratic script. It is significantly fragmented, with large areas missing, revealing the underlying support. The script is written in dark ink against the lighter papyrus. The document's condition indicates significant age, with frayed edges and discoloration.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.12 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152129 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.