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.
Photograph of a small, irregular terracotta pottery ostracon with faint reddish-brown ink marks arranged in short lines and clustered signs on the surface.
The object is a broken, irregularly shaped clay/terracotta fragment with a sandy, reddish surface. Darker ink traces appear in several places: at least one set of short horizontal/diagonal strokes and a few clustered rectangular or wedge-like sign forms are visible but largely worn and fragmentary. No cartouches, readable royal names, or clear deity determinatives can be confidently identified from the image. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic script is visible. The marks look like ink writing consistent with an ostracon inscription, but legibility is too limited to extract a reliable excerpt.
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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.