Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · papyrus
Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose
Description
Caption: Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose, ca. 1500–1480 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, pigment, 14 x 293 in. (35.6 x 744.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1777E. Tags Brooklyn Icons
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.
A papyrus with columns of hieroglyphic script.
The artifact is a piece of ancient Egyptian papyrus featuring numerous vertical columns of tightly packed hieroglyphic text. The script is consistent and well-detailed, with varying sizes of characters, suggesting a formal document. The papyrus edges are uneven, indicating some deterioration over time.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1777E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118297 tier-2
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