Papyrus inscribed with accounts of beer and bulls

Papyrus inscribed with accounts of beer and bulls

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The subject-matter on the recto (front side of the papyrus), where the beginning is damaged, includes beer, bulls, and possibly land; on the verso (back side of the papyrus), the text begins with: “Account of the land which the Master (life, prosperity and health) gave to the ka-servant Ipi”. This “master” may well have been the deceased for whom Ipi acted as ka-servant (funerary priest). The recto area is divided into squares that contain numbers.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.