Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus

Book of the Dead for the Chantress of Amun, Nauny

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Description

Papyrus, paint

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A horizontally oriented painted papyrus sheet depicting a funerary procession with multiple standing figures, ritual scenes, and Egyptian hieroglyphic text bands.

The image shows a long, rectangular papyrus with painted figures in profile and full/half figures arranged in registers. Several personified/ritual attendants wear traditional Egyptian garments and headgear; one scene includes a kneeling or seated figure near a small, dark animal (likely a jackal-like form), and another figure appears to present or handle an object on an elevated stand or altar-like structure. Vertical columns and horizontal bands of Egyptian hieroglyphs fill the field, with additional painted border lines. Overall the composition is consistent with a funerary papyrus page containing both vignette scenes and spells.

funerary Third Intermediate Period (per catalogue; exact date unclear from image alone) good
Deities unknown (a jackal-like funerary animal figure is visible, but deity identification not clear)
Materials papyruspaint
Signs Egyptian hieroglyphic text columns (multiple spell lines; chantress/ritual context not legible precisely) ×20
Visible text "Hieroglyphic text is present throughout in columns and bands; specific phrases (including Nauny/Amun) are not legible enough in this image to quote reliably."

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Deities Amun

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q29385952 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.3.31 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548344 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.