Egyptian Inscriptions Database

Ancient Egypt, linked
across every collection.

Most catalogues stop at one institution's holdings. This one stitches them together: a papyrus's text edition, its excavation record, and its museum photograph joined by shared identifiers. 193,867 objects from 25 museums, excavation archives, and text corpora, georeferenced and cross-referenced, with every record traceable to its source and AI-assisted readings clearly marked as such.

193,867

Objects

60,913

Inscriptions

25,442

Translations

560,914

Cross-references

96,065

TM spine bridges

5,366

AI-analyzed images

Featured objects

Sistrum Inscribed with the Names of King Teti

Sistrum Inscribed with the Names of King Teti

26.7.1450 · Memphis (Mit Rahina) · Old Kingdom

A scepter with a falcon on top, featuring hieroglyphics on the shaft.

Offering table from the mortuary temple of Amenemhat I

Offering table from the mortuary temple of Amenemhat I

09.180.526 · Lisht North · Middle Kingdom

This is a carved stone sarcophagus with intricate hieroglyphs and symbolic carvings.

Head of Serapis

Head of Serapis

37.1522E · Egypt · Early Roman Period

A limestone sculpture of a bearded figure with horned features.

Hathor with Horus as Falcon

Hathor with Horus as Falcon

53.78 · Dendera, Egypt · Ptolemaic Period to Roman Period

A small ancient Egyptian artifact depicting a Pharaoh's head topped with a falcon.

Ptah-Sokar-Osiris box

Ptah-Sokar-Osiris box

E.24.1887 · Akhmim Egypt

A small wooden artifact depicting a bird, likely a falcon, with a sun disk on its head.

Zitbeeld van Anoebis

Zitbeeld van Anoebis

L.VI.77 · Onbekend · late tijd

A small bronze statue depicting a seated jackal-headed figure.

Themes

The Theban West Bank

Karnak, Luxor, Deir el-Bahri, Medinet Habu, Valley of the Kings — the densest cluster of 18th-Dynasty inscriptions in the corpus.

Akhenaten's Amarna

All 7,386 objects from the Egypt Exploration Society's Tell el-Amarna excavations, georeferenced by Petrie grid.

The Cross-Source Spine

2,407 TM-Text IDs bridge papyri across DDB, HGV, APIS, MET, and BM — the unique-in-the-world claim.

What the AI Sees

GPT-4o reads 1,500+ artifacts: detected deities, royal cartouches, sign vocabulary, and visible hieroglyphic text.

Explore by entity

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The corpus is also navigable by concept. Each name gathers objects across every source.

Deities Horus 1531 Ptah 793 Osiris 736 Amun 697 Isis 630 Hathor 458 Thoth 372 Taweret 324 Anubis 209 Bastet 171 Nephthys 161 Sekhmet 129

Places Eastern Cemetery, [Street G 7000], debris E of subsidiary pyramid G I-b 6949 Lisht North 3934 Oxyrhynchos 3921 Arsinoites 3399 Gisa 3369 Deir el-Bahri 3050 Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt 3009 Asasif 2911 Western Cemetery, Pit G 2381 A, chamber 2908 Saqqara 2774 Malqata 2479 Theben 2163

Sources

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text45,000 Papyri.info — HGV (Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis) — metadata40,000 Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri34,992 Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access)27,972 ORAEC (Online Resource for Ancient Egyptian Corpus)13,026 Harvard/MFA Giza Archives11,031 Tell el-Amarna Project (Cambridge/EES) — Object Database7,386 Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, SMB Berlin3,336 Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art2,786 British Museum — Department of Egypt and Sudan1,658 Cleveland Museum of Art (Egyptian)1,328 Art Institute of Chicago (Egyptian)1,244 Walters Art Museum (Egyptian)1,070 Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian)729 Smithsonian — National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA)575 ISAC Chicago — Integrated Database (Egyptian)500 Smithsonian — NMNH - Anthropology Dept. (NMNHANTHRO)500 Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection320 Smithsonian — National Museum of American History (NMAH)200 Smithsonian — Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)169 Leiden RMO — Egyptian collection44 Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (TLA)1