Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian) · papyrus

papyrus

Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian), acc. E.100.1896. See the source record for rights. Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: E.100.1896
Find spot: Ramesseum
Period: Third Intermediate period
Dynasty: 22nd Dynasty
Reign: reign of Osorkon I
Date range: 923 BCE – 923 BCE
Width: 27.0 cm
Repository: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian), papyrus (E.100.1896). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/1245

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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.

A fragmentary sheet of inscribed ancient Egyptian papyrus densely filled with horizontal lines of dark hieroglyphic script.

The image shows a rectangular papyrus fragment with irregular missing edges and multiple larger losses around the left side. The surface is covered with tightly spaced, horizontal lines of dark ink hieroglyphs, arranged in rows across most of the visible area. No figurative scenes, deities, or cartouches are clearly legible at this resolution; the script appears as continuous writing rather than a clearly demarcated royal protocol. There is no visible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text. The overall tone, thickness, and fibrous appearance of the sheet are consistent with a preserved papyrus document fragment rather than carved stone or plaster.

hieroglyphic only Third Intermediate period (per catalogue ground truth; script style not sufficiently legible here to confirm) fragmentary

Materials papyrusink (dark pigment)

Signs hieroglyphic text (multiple sign types in rows; individual signs not reliably readable) ×200

Visible text "Unreadable at this image resolution; appears as continuous hieroglyphic lines with no clearly legible excerpt."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Unreadable at this image resolution; appears as continuous hieroglyphic lines with no clearly legible excerpt.

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Found at Ramesseum

Materials Ink Papyrus

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From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian).
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.