Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Papyrus fragment
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 fragmentary papyrus with black ink inscriptions.
This artifact is a worn and fragmentary piece of papyrus featuring black ink inscriptions. The writing is in multiple columns with visible damage and missing sections, suggesting age and fragility. The style of the script is typical of ancient manuscript traditions, with attention to linear arrangement.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244122 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 27.3.159 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545457 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.