Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Heqanakht Account VI Middle KingdomDeir el-Bahri
Description
Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, reign of Senwosret I, ca. 1961–1917 B.C. Papyrus, ink. H. 25.8 cm (10 2/16 in.), W. 17 cm (6 11/16 in.). From: Tomb of Ipy (TT 315, MMA 516B), Tomb of Meseh, Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1921–22. Subject: Documents, Hieratic. Credit: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922.
The same text in other collections
Linked by shared inventory number
(MET-Object 545450).
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- MMA 22.3.521 PNM textDeir el-Bahri
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Multiple lines of cursive hieratic/administrative text; individual words and numbers are not clearly legible at this resolution, though repeated numeral-like groupings and separators are visible.
Cross-references (5)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244151 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.3.521 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545450 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- PNM-Object pnm:83902006 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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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.