Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus

Funerary Papyrus of Nauny

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Description

Papyrus, paint

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 papyrus scroll featuring a procession of deities with accompanying hieroglyphic text.

The artifact is a detailed papyrus scroll depicting a scene with multiple deities shown in procession, each holding significant objects. The deities are adorned in traditional regalia, and the scene is bordered by hieroglyphic text above and likely indicates a religious or funerary context. The style is consistent with late Egyptian artistic conventions, exhibiting vivid colors and characteristic iconography.

religious New Kingdom good
Materials papyrus
Signs ankh ×5 was sceptre ×3

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials Papyrus

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116235389 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.3.32 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545191 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.