Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Papyrus
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 cursive inscriptions.
The image shows a papyrus fragment with extensive cursive text written in black ink, oriented vertically within the image. The papyrus is worn and shows signs of aging with several holes and tears across the surface. The script appears to be a form of ancient writing, possibly hieratic, due to the cursive and flowing nature of the characters. The texture and color suggest an ancient origin.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
papyrus
Visible text
"unknown"
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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.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.