The Wilbour Papyrus
Description
Caption: The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 15 3/4 x 18 1/8 in. (40 x 46 cm) Object: 14 x 16 5/16 in. (35.5 x 41.4 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 406 11/16 in. (10.33 m). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.9. (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 papyrus with black hieratic script.
The artifact is a fragmentary papyrus document containing black ink inscriptions in hieratic script. The papyrus exhibits significant wear, with numerous missing sections and damage around the edges. The textual content appears to be organized in columns, typical of administrative or literary documents. The writing style suggests it may have been used for clerical or record-keeping purposes.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.9 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152126 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.