Papyrus Fragments Inscribed in Hieratic
Description
Caption: Papyrus Fragments Inscribed in Hieratic, ca. 1938–1630 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, a: Glass: 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm) b: Small Box of Fragments: 1 3/4 x 4 1/16 x 4 1/16 in. (4.5 x 10.3 x 10.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.580.222a-b. (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.
A collection of papyrus fragments with hieratic script.
The image depicts numerous fragments of papyrus laid out on a flat surface, with visible hieratic script across many of the pieces. The fragments are irregular in shape and vary in size, suggesting they may have been part of a larger document or several documents. The script appears to be densely written, characteristic of administrative or literary texts.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.580.222a-b tier-2
- BKM-Object 10033 tier-2
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- 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.