Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Heqanahkt Letter II
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.
The image depicts a papyrus document with rows of hieratic script.
The papyrus is densely filled with columns of hieratic script, composed in a regular and meticulous manner. The document appears to have been well-preserved with some minor damages and gaps. The text likely served a functional role, possibly administrative or literary, given the organized layout and extensive content.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
papyrus
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244163 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.3.517 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545446 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.