Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Ostracon with hieratic inscription
Description
Limestone, 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 fragment of ancient Egyptian script on papyrus.
The artifact is a piece of ancient papyrus covered with a series of lines in black script. The handwriting appears to be a cursive form, with evenly spaced lines suggesting a structured text. The papyrus itself shows signs of age, with torn edges and some discoloration.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Signs
hieratic script ×30
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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.