Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Papyrus inscribed with an account and a religious text
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 piece of ancient papyrus with hieratic script inscriptions.
This is a fragmentary piece of papyrus showing multiple columns of hieratic script, a cursive writing system used in ancient Egypt. The text appears densely packed with vertical lines indicative of a formal document, possibly administrative or literary. The papyrus shows signs of aging with some missing sections typical of such artifacts.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Signs
ankh ×2
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244123 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.3.528 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545456 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.