Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Heqanakht Papyrus Fragments
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.
Fragments of papyrus with visible inscriptions.
The image shows several fragments of ancient papyrus, each with inscriptions that appear to be in hieratic script. The fragments are irregularly shaped and displayed on a flat surface, revealing signs of age through frayed edges and discoloration. The text is mostly legible, written in dark ink, with some strokes thicker than others, suggesting it may have been written with a reed pen.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Signs
unknown ×10
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244145 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.3.523a–f tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545452 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.