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.
A small fragment of reddish-brown pottery bearing a dark reddish-brown ink inscription with a cluster of signs near the upper area.
The object is a roughly triangular pottery sherd with broken edges. Its surface is mottled with reddish-brown and tan areas from firing and handling. A dark reddish-brown ink runs vertically in the center/upper portion, and there is a concentrated group of painted/drawn signs near the upper center-right; the overall marks resemble a handwritten Egyptian text rather than a decorative motif. No clear royal cartouche or deity-specific determinatives can be confidently identified from the available image resolution. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.
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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.