Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Letter written in hieratic script on papyrus
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.
A fragment of ancient papyrus with handwritten text in black ink.
The artifact is a papyrus fragment displaying lines of handwritten text in a clear, dark script. The text appears to be inscribed using black ink, characteristic of many ancient Egyptian documents. The papyrus is visibly aged, with frayed edges and some areas of missing material. The script's style suggests it could be hieratic or demotic, commonly used for administrative and literary texts.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
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.
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