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 1/16 in. (30.5 x 30.7 cm) a: Largest Fragment: 1 x 1 5/8 in. (2.5 x 4.2 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, 16.580.221a-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.
Image of fragmented pieces of an ancient document, likely papyrus.
The image depicts numerous small fragments of what appears to be a papyrus document. These pieces are irregular in shape and vary in size, scattered across a flat, neutral background. Some fragments show visible ink markings, indicative of writing, though the text is not fully legible. The overall composition suggests careful preservation of these ancient remnants.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.580.221a-b tier-2
- BKM-Object 10032 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.
- 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.