Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Two 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.
Fragments of ancient Egyptian papyrus with visible hieratic script.
The image depicts several fragments of papyrus featuring black and red ink inscriptions in hieratic script. The fragments reveal portions of larger texts and show signs of damage typical of ancient documents, such as fraying and missing sections. The script is arranged in columns and the use of red ink suggests headings or important sections.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
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