Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian) · papyrus

papyrus

Source of record: Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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.

Fragmentary papyrus with painted scenes of standing and offering figures flanking columns of hieroglyphic text; the central area contains additional registers of imagery and text.

The image shows a long, horizontally arranged papyrus fragment with multiple vertical and horizontal breaks. Two main painted figures stand at left and right, wearing white garments and headdresses, facing inward toward a central section. Between and near these figures are blocks of densely packed hieroglyphic signs arranged in columns, including a larger framed area near the center. The central composition contains additional register-like imagery with small figures or symbols and a wider band of text above and below. Color survives as brown/black ink for hieroglyphs and figures, with yellowish/red-brown painted elements. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.

religious New Kingdom (as catalogued; image style consistent with temple/papyri hieroglyphic illustration, but exact sub-period not determinable from this view) fragmentary
Materials papyrus (painted surface)black ink pigmentred-brown/yellow pigment
Signs hieroglyphic columns/blocks (unreadable at this resolution) ×20

Connections

Found at Sedment Egypt
About this record's data
  • 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.