The Wilbour Papyrus
Description
Caption: The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 9 13/16 x 18 1/8 in. (25 x 46 cm) Largest Fragment: 7 3/16 x 9 13/16 in. (18.3 x 25 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 406 11/16 in. (10.33 m). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.3. (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.
The image depicts a fragmentary papyrus document with text written in ancient script.
The artifact is a papyrus fragment featuring lines of text in an ancient Egyptian script, likely hieratic given its cursive nature. The papyrus is heavily fragmented, with several pieces missing, yet the visible sections show rows of faded characters. The color of the papyrus is a darkened brown, indicating age and possible environmental exposure.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.3 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152120 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.