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Heqanakht Account VI

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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). Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A recto view of a Middle Kingdom papyrus fragment covered with black ink cursive hieratic and occasional numeral-like marks.

The image shows a vertically oriented, rectangular papyrus sheet with worn edges and several losses/creases. Most of the surface contains dense, dark ink writing in cursive hieratic style with many short horizontal strokes, stacked signs, and repeated number-like groupings separated by dashes. There are no clearly legible royal names or cartouches visible; only small, ambiguous sign fragments appear. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic script is visible. The text appears to be an account/administrative record with figures rather than decorative iconography; no deities are identifiable from the legible portions. The catalogue-ground-truth subject is “Heqanakht Account VI,” but the specific “Heqanakht” name or any distinctive formula cannot be confirmed from this image alone.

hieroglyphic only Middle Kingdom (as catalogued; cursive hieratic accounts style) fragmentary
Materials papyrusink
Signs cursive hieratic sign forms with numeral-like strokes (not individually legible) ×15
Visible text "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."

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.

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials InkPapyrus

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)
About this record's data
  • 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.