The Wilbour Papyrus
Description
Caption: The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 12 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (32 x 46 cm) Object: 10 7/16 x 16 1/8 in. (26.5 x 41 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 406 11/16 in. (10.33 m). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.32. (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.
This is an ancient Egyptian papyrus document with visible hieratic script.
The artifact is a fragmentary papyrus showing several lines of hieratic script. The writing is laid out in horizontal lines, typical of administrative or literary documents. The papyrus shows signs of degradation, with areas of loss and discoloration. Despite the damage, the script remains mostly legible.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.32 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152149 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.