Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus

Heqanakht Account VII

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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 artifact is a fragmentary papyrus with hieratic script.

This fragmentary papyrus contains inscriptions in hieratic script, which is a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The papyrus shows significant signs of aging with large areas of missing material and darkened spots. The text covers much of the surface with several lines of characters, typical of administrative or literary papyri of ancient Egypt.

hieroglyphic only unclear fragmentary
Materials papyrus
Signs unknown ×10

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials Papyrus

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116244147 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 22.3.522 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545451 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.