Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Marriage Contract
Description
Papyrus, ink
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
An ancient papyrus document featuring several lines of script.
The artifact is a fragmentary piece of papyrus with visible lines of script, possibly in hieratic or demotic script. The document shows significant wear, with many missing sections and frayed edges. The script is neatly arranged in rows, suggesting a record or literary text. The style is characteristic of administrative or literary documents from ancient Egypt.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Connections
Materials
Papyrus
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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.