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, roughly rectangular fragment of fired clay (ostracon) with traces of red and dark ink marks on its surface.
The object appears to be an unglazed pottery fragment with an uneven, broken edge, photographed against a plain light background. Most of the surface shows the brownish, gritty clay body. Along one left edge there are visible traces of red pigment/ink in a narrow vertical area. Scattered darker specks/lines are present on the face, but no clear, complete hieroglyphic signs or words can be reliably read from this image resolution/angle; the writing is therefore considered illegible/uncertain. No carved relief, cartouche, or identifiable royal titulary is visible. There is no evidence of Greek, Coptic, or Arabic script. The image does not show any iconography or deity figure—only writing/pigment traces.
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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.