Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · document
Writing board Middle KingdomAkhmim (Khemmis, Panopolis)
Description
Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 1981–1802 B.C. Wood, gesso, paint. L. 43 cm (16 15/16 in); w. 19 cm (7 1/2 in). Said to be from: Akhmim (Khemmis, Panopolis), Upper Egypt, Thebes or Northern Upper Egypt. Credit: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1928.
The same text in other collections
Linked by shared inventory number
(ORAEC-id oraec1998).
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- B: Musterbrief des In-su / Schreibtafel MMA 28.9.4 (A+B) ORAEC text(unbestimmt)
- A: Musterbrief des Behsu / Schreibtafel MMA 28.9.4 (A+B) ORAEC text(unbestimmt)
- MMA 28.9.4 PNM text
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Cross-references (7)
- Wikidata-Q Q29385780 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 28.9.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544319 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- ORAEC-id oraec9003 tier-2 (inventory-match)
- ORAEC-id oraec1998 tier-2 (inventory-match)
- PNM-Object pnm:83895961 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- 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.