Papyrus inscribed with an account and a religious text

Papyrus inscribed with an account and a religious text

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fragment of a larger document, bearing an account on one side and a religious text, perhaps a spell, on the other. The account lists a number of names with their filiation along with amounts of grain. A line at the bottom of the text suggests that another account was written below it. The text on the other side addresses Seth in his epithet of the Lord of Su and asks that the enemy of the speaker may not exist. The texts were are written by two different hands, the account with small, neat and cursive signs, while the religious text with a rather large, archaic and non-cursive handwriting. The papyrus was found in a tomb along with two other documents, one of which bears the name Harhotep, but the three may very well be unrelated to each other.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Papyrus inscribed with an account and a religious textPapyrus inscribed with an account and a religious textPapyrus inscribed with an account and a religious textPapyrus inscribed with an account and a religious textPapyrus inscribed with an account and a religious text

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.