Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · funerary_equipment

Mummy label of Pkyris (son of) Besis and Senpnouth Roman PeriodAkhmim (Khemmis, Panopolis)

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Description

Mummy Label, Pkyris (son of) Besis and Senpnouth. Roman Period, A.D. 3rd century. Wood, ink. 11 × 6 cm (4 5/16 × 2 3/8 in.). Probably from: Akhmim (Khemmis, Panopolis), Northern Upper Egypt. Credit: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

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.

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Found at Akhmim
Materials WoodInk
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