Papyrus inscribed with accounts of beer and bulls

Title: Papyrus inscribed with accounts of beer and bulls

Period: Middle Kingdom

Dynasty: Dynasty 12

Reign: reign of Amenemhat I, early

Date: ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Southern Asasif, Tomb of Meketre (TT 280, MMA 1101), MMA excavations, 1919–20

Medium: Papyrus, ink

Dimensions: H. 29 cm (11 7/16 in.), W. 27.5 cm (10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922

Accession Number: 22.3.525

The inscription on the verso reads "writings of the fields, which the Lord lph gave to the ka-servant Ipi"

On the recto, three of the columns whose title is preserved are marked as Hnq.t ds(beer jags) with subtitles that might mark measurements; the final title reads kA.w (bulls).

Museum excavations; acquired by the Museum in the division of finds, 1922.

James, Thomas G. H. 1962. The Hekanakhte papers, and other early Middle Kingdom documents, Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition, 19. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 83-85, pl. 22.

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