Papyrus fragment

Papyrus fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

According to the style of writing, this letter was written during the Middle Kingdom. However, not enough of it remains to determine anything about its content. Both sides were written on a papyrus that was used before.

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.