Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Meketre papyrus
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.
An ancient Egyptian papyrus fragment with hieroglyphic and hieratic writing.
This artifact is a papyrus fragment bearing detailed hieroglyphic and hieratic inscriptions. The composition is columnar with vertical lines of text, featuring a mix of phonetic and ideographic signs typical of administrative or literary texts. The script appears fluid and skilled, indicating experienced scribes. Notable features include the papyrus's worn edges and distinct ink fading, indicative of age and use.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Signs
ankh ×3
djed ×2
was
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244137 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.3.524 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545453 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.
- 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.