Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Papyrus of Sitnebsekhtu, Heqanakht Letter IV
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 Egyptian papyrus with vertical lines of hieratic script.
This artifact is a papyrus fragment featuring several vertical columns of hieratic script, a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphs used primarily for administrative and literary documents. The papyrus is fragmentary, with portions missing, offering insights into the writing practices of ancient Egyptians. The ink is dark and contrasts with the lighter papyrus material.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Signs
unknown
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244161 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.3.519 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545448 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.