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Fragment of a Scribe's Writing Board Middle KingdomDeir el-Bahri

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 26.3.277c. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 26.3.277c
Find spot: Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 11
Date: ca. 2030–1981 B.C.
Date range: 2030 BCE – 1981 BCE
Materials: ['sycomore wood', 'gesso']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Writing Board fragments, scribe's. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 11, ca. 2030–1981 B.C. Sycomore wood, gesso. L. 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.); W. 3 cm (1 3/16 in.); Th. 0.9 cm (3/8 in.). From: Tomb MMA 515, Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1921–22. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1926.

The same text in other collections

Linked by shared inventory number (ORAEC-id oraec8984). Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Fragments from a Scribe's Writing Board MET imageDeir el-Bahrica. 2130–1981 B.C.
verso Fragment A+B / Schreibtafel MMA 26.3.277 (A+B) ORAEC textDeir el-Bahari
recto Fragment A+B / Schreibtafel MMA 26.3.277 (A+B) ORAEC textDeir el-Bahari

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A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

[hieroglyphic-like marks; exact transcription unclear from image resolution]

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Found at Deir el-Bahri

Materials Red Pigment

Cross-references (6)

Wikidata-Q Q116243360 tier-1
Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
Inventory-Number 26.3.277c tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
MET-Object 556637 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
ORAEC-id oraec8984 tier-2 (inventory-match)
ORAEC-id oraec9007 tier-2 (inventory-match)

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