The Wilbour Papyrus
Description
Caption: The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 18 1/8 x 21 5/8 in. (46 x 55 cm) Object: 16 5/8 x 20 1/4 in. (42.3 x 51.5 cm) Total length of 34.5596.1-.33: 4 1/16 in. (10.33kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.5596.24. (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 papyrus document with rows of script in black ink.
The image shows a piece of papyrus with multiple columns of densely packed text written in black ink. The papyrus is fragmented and has visible tears along the edges. The script is organized in lines, and the overall condition suggests it is an ancient document, possibly a manuscript or administrative text. The material surface is aged and the writing style is consistent with ancient Egyptian documents.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.5596.24 tier-2
- BKM-Object 152141 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.