The Wilbour Papyrus
Description
Caption: The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 18 1/8 x 22 1/16 in. (46 x 56 cm) Object: 16 3/4 x 21 1/4 in. (42.5 x 54 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 406 11/16 in. (10.33 m). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.22. (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 document with multiple columns of hieratic script.
The image depicts a weathered papyrus fragment featuring several columns of hieratic writing. The text is organized into rows of compact script. The papyrus shows evidence of age, with areas of loss and frayed edges, suggesting it is ancient. The ink appears faded in sections but is mostly legible.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.22 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152139 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.