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 reddish-orange pottery ostracon fragment with faint black ink marks arranged in short horizontal/diagonal strokes resembling partial hieroglyphic writing.
The image shows a rectangular fragment of fired clay with irregular edges. The surface is reddish-brown with some darker and lighter patches from firing and wear. Near the center and upper areas, there are several small ink signs or strokes (dark gray/black), appearing as scattered, partially preserved hieroglyph-like marks rather than a continuous inscription. No readable complete word, cartouche, or clear determinative can be confidently identified from the available resolution. The marks do not form a clearly legible Greek or Coptic inscription, and no clear royal titulary is visible. The overall appearance matches a typical ostracon used for ink writing.
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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.