The Wilbour Papyrus
Description
Caption: The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 18 1/8 x 23 5/8 in. (46 x 60 cm) Object: 16 9/16 x 22 1/16 in. (42.1 x 56 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 406 11/16 in. (10.33 m). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.25. (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 multiple columns of inscriptions.
The image depicts a large, ancient papyrus document featuring several columns of tightly packed script. The papyrus is fragmentary, with visible tears and missing sections, indicative of its great age. The writing is done in a cursive script, likely hieratic, used for administrative and literary documents. The overall composition suggests it might have served a legal or administrative purpose.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.25 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152142 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.