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.
A fragment of ancient Egyptian papyrus with visible inscriptions in two distinct script types.
This artifact is a fragmentary piece of papyrus featuring inscriptions in both hieratic (red ink) and demotic (black ink) scripts. The red ink suggests a title or an introductory line, while the black ink possibly contains annotations or calculations. The papyrus appears to be part of a larger document, with frayed and worn edges indicating its age and use.
hieroglyphic only
Late Period
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Signs
n/a
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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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