Abbreviated Book of the Dead
Description
Object Label: This vignette comes from a papyrus that belonged to an official named Ankhefenmut. He is shown here in a position of adoration before the god Re-Horakhty. Although scenes depicting private individuals in the presence of a god are known from as early as the Middle Kingdom, they did not become popular until the Ramesside Period. Caption: Abbreviated Book of the Dead, ca. 1070–945 B.C.E.. Papyrus, ink, Sheet: 8 7/8 x 13 3/8 in. (22.6 x 34 cm) As mounted: 14 3/8 x 19 1/8 in. (36.5 x 48.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1826Ea. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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.
Photograph of a framed ancient Egyptian papyrus sheet with multiple lines of dark ink text and a partially damaged right edge, displayed behind glass.
The image shows a papyrus document mounted inside a rectangular wooden frame on a museum wall. The papyrus contains dense horizontal lines of dark, brown-black ink that resemble hieroglyphic/“Book of the Dead” spell text. The sheet is visibly fragmented or torn on the right side, where the papyrus is missing/creased and the ink block ends abruptly; the left portion remains more intact. There are no clearly discernible deity figures or cartouches at this resolution; only continuous text lines are visible. A small modern label card is present to the lower right with legible modern (non-Egyptian) museum text, but it is too small/blurred to extract reliably beyond the overall subject noted by the user. No clear Greek/Coptic/Arabic inscriptions are visible on the artifact itself; the only readable text appears to be the modern wall label.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1826Ea tier-2
- BKM-Object 4182 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.