Accounts of workforce salaries

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fragmentary papyrus contains accounts of grain and dates given as salaries to a workforce. The account specifies the amounts given on specific days, ranging from day 20 of the last month of the year through the epagomenal days into the beginning of the new year. The verso of the papyrus mentions dates in the shemu-season (summer). This papyrus was found in a tomb together with another fragmentary papyrus and a few ostraca. These were originally believed to belong to the funerary servants of Harhotep who is buried nearby, but no servant is mentioned in their inscriptions, and the handwriting differs from one text to another.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art