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Papyrus Inscribed in Hieratic

Source of record: Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Caption: Papyrus Inscribed in Hieratic, ca. 1292–1190 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 7 5/8 x 9 9/16 in. (19.3 x 24.3 cm) Largest Fragment: 7/8 x 4 1/4 in. (2.2 x 10.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.903E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

The same text in other collections

Linked by shared inventory number (ORAEC-id oraec4119). Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Fragmentary strip of papyrus with dark ink hieratic text arranged in horizontal lines across multiple torn pieces.

The image shows several irregular papyrus fragments mounted on a light-gray backing inside a framed display. The papyrus is yellow-brown with jagged edges and one or more pieces overlapping slightly. Across the strips are dark, brown-black marks consistent with hieratic cursive, laid out in lines running mostly left-to-right. No clear cartouche, royal titulary box, or fully legible proper name is visible at this resolution. There are no visible figural scenes; the decoration appears entirely text-based. At the bottom edge, a small label-like strip is visible but is too indistinct to read reliably as museum catalog text. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is apparent.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom (Ramesside Period), Thebes (catalogue ground truth); exact date cannot be confirmed from the image alone. fragmentary
Deities unknown
Royals unknown
Materials Papyrusink
Signs Hieratic cursive script (unidentified signs; line-based arrangement)
Visible text "Unclear; individual signs are not legible enough to transcribe reliably."

Connections

Found at Thebes
Materials InkPapyrus

Cross-references (3)

  • BKM-Accession 37.903E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117489 tier-2
  • ORAEC-id oraec4119 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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.