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Horizontal five-panel document featuring written characters in black on the left four pages and an illustration of the fifth. A seated figure at left in profile, wearing a tall headdress and white clothing, looks toward a dark-haired female figure at right in white with a white object on her head. She holds up her hands in gesture. A panel of hieroglyphs in white squares is visible behind them.

Funerary Papyrus of Tayuhenutmut

Ancient Egyptian · Third Intermediate Period, probably Dynasty 21 (about 1069-945 BCE)

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Palette

Tan
 79% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.4:1
Pale stone
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.5:1
Fawn
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.1:1
Putty
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.3:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Mushroom
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.6:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Ancient Egyptian
Date
Third Intermediate Period, probably Dynasty 21 (about 1069-945 BCE)
Type
Painting
Medium
Papyrus and pigment
Size
24.5 × 101 cm (9 11/16 × 39 7/8 in.)
Place
Egypt
Themes
Reading and letters · Myths and legends
Main colour
Brown · lightness 56, colourfulness 28

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, Robert H. Fleming, and Norman W. Harris. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-27); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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