The Wilbour Papyrus
Description
Caption: The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 16 1/8 x 18 1/8 in. (41 x 46 cm) Object: 14 15/16 x 16 3/4 in. (38 x 42.5 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 406 11/16 in. (10.33 m). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.26. (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 Egyptian papyrus with columns of hieratic script.
The image depicts a fragmentary papyrus document inscribed with several vertical columns of hieratic script. The text is densely packed, with clear dark ink on the faded papyrus, showing signs of aging and fragility. The writing appears to be organized in a formal manner, possibly a ledger or list with repeated entries. The artifact shows uneven edges and some areas of loss, indicative of its ancient origins.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.26 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152143 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.