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 papyrus containing handwritten text.
The artifact is a torn piece of papyrus inscribed with a series of hieratic script, likely used for a practical or administrative purpose. The writing is black ink on a light brown material, typical of papyrus documents from ancient Egypt. The document appears to be organized in horizontal lines and is fragmentary in condition.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Signs
reed leaf ×10
basket with handle ×5
Visible text
"rx-III-ma"
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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.
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