Ostracon with a grid giving days of the months in hieratic against names and locations in hieroglyphs

Ostracon with a grid giving days of the months in hieratic against names and locations in hieroglyphs

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A series of ostraka from the excavation of tomb of Nespekashuty have been examined in a forthcoming study: they seem to have been left by a single not particularly skilled scribe, who mixed cursive hieroglyphic and hieratic scripts. The texts include practice lists, random jottings, dated accounts and even the beginning of a New Kingdom literary text, "The Wisdom of Amenemope." The texts postdate the tomb, probably to the Persian Period according to palaeography (handwriting style).

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ostracon with a grid giving days of the months in hieratic against names and locations in hieroglyphsOstracon with a grid giving days of the months in hieratic against names and locations in hieroglyphsOstracon with a grid giving days of the months in hieratic against names and locations in hieroglyphsOstracon with a grid giving days of the months in hieratic against names and locations in hieroglyphsOstracon with a grid giving days of the months in hieratic against names and locations in hieroglyphs

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.