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 1/16 x 16 3/4 in. (25.5 x 42.5 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 406 11/16 in. (10.33 m). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.15. (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 Egyptian papyrus with black ink inscriptions.
The image depicts a fragmentary papyrus sheet with columns of text in black ink. The writing appears to be structured in rows, possibly written in a cursive script associated with administrative records or religious texts. The papyrus shows signs of significant aging with multiple tears and worn edges. The ink is largely faded though still legible in parts.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.15 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152132 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.