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 and red ink inscriptions.
The artifact is a papyrus fragment featuring vertical and horizontal columns of hieratic script written in black and red ink. The text appears to be a list or calculation, possibly administrative or mathematical, evidenced by numerical signs. The papyrus is in a delicate and fragmentary condition, displaying the typical features of ancient Egyptian administrative documents.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Signs
reed leaf ×3
owl ×2
water line ×5
Visible text
"1333 2/3"
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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.
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