Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Funerary Papyrus of Nauny
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
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.