Ostracon
Description
Pottery, ink
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.
Triangular pottery ostracon with multiple lines of dark ink text written in Egyptian script (hieroglyphic or hieratic/abbreviated forms).
The object is a small, roughly triangular fragment of fired pottery with a well-preserved writing surface. Several horizontal lines of dark brown to black ink cover the face, with grouped wedge-like and stroke-like marks consistent with Egyptian script. No clearly identifiable royal cartouche (encircling ring) is visible, and no deity figure/sign is unmistakable. The writing is moderately abraded but the presence of repeated sign clusters suggests a short administrative or textual entry. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is legible. The photo does not show any separate pigment besides the ink for the inscriptions. Background is plain and there are no additional inscriptions on the reverse side in the provided view.
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About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- 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.