Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Heqanakht Letter V
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 an ancient papyrus containing hieratic inscriptions with numerical notations.
The artifact is a piece of ancient papyrus featuring hieratic script, which includes a series of numbers and calculations, likely representing an accounting or inventory document. The script is written in vertical columns and horizontal rows, and some portions have been damaged over time, leading to some text loss. The document reflects administrative practices and scribal work of the time with a focus on numerical recording.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Signs
bird ×14
reed ×20
nfr ×5
Visible text
"nfr aA"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244156 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.3.520 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545449 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.