The Wilbour Papyrus
Description
Caption: The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 14 x 18 1/8 in. (35.5 x 46 cm) Object: 12 3/8 x 16 3/4 in. (31.5 x 42.5 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 406 11/16 in. (10.33 m). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.21. (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 manuscript filled with hieratic script.
The image depicts a fragmented papyrus sheet covered in dense hieratic writing, likely originating from an administrative or literary context. The faded inscriptions are carefully arranged in vertical columns and exhibit the typical cursive style characteristic of the period's script. The document is physically fragmented with notable losses, especially at the edges, yet retains much of its textual content.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.21 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152138 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.