Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Papyrus inscribed with accounts of beer and bulls
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.
A fragmented ancient Egyptian papyrus document with columns of hieratic text.
The image depicts a fragmented papyrus scroll with columns of neatly arranged hieratic script. The papyrus shows signs of aging and damage, with several pieces missing and edges frayed. The script is organized in vertical columns, a common feature of ancient Egyptian record-keeping and literature. Some areas have faded or illegible characters due to the condition of the papyrus.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Signs
unknown
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244135 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.3.525 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545454 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.