Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Three frames with papyrus fragments
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.
Two fragments of ancient Egyptian papyrus with visible hieratic script.
The image shows two large fragments of an ancient papyrus document. The papyrus is aged and fragile, with substantial portions missing. The right fragment has a vertical column of hieratic script in black ink, while the left fragment has faint traces of script or drawings. The style of writing suggests administrative or personal content typical of non-monumental texts.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Signs
unknown ×20
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