Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Heqanakht Letter I
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 fragmentary ancient Egyptian papyrus with multiple columns of hieratic script.
The image depicts a papyrus fragment featuring several vertical columns of hieratic writing. The papyrus appears aged and is missing sections, revealing significant wear and tear typical of ancient documents. The script is compact and closely packed, characteristic of administrative or literary documents.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Cross-references (4)
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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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