Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · ostracon
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, broken terracotta pottery fragment on a light gray background.
The image shows a reddish-orange ceramic ostracon fragment with a worn, uneven break on the left edge and a flatter surface on top. Faint, dark marks consistent with deteriorated ink are visible on the front face, but no clearly legible hieroglyphs, Greek, or Coptic/Arabic text can be confidently identified at this resolution. No cartouche, deity figure, or other iconography is clearly visible.
unclear
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (catalogue ground truth; lettering/ink not legible enough to confirm)
fragmentary
Materials
potteryink (faint traces; not clearly readable)
Connections
Found at
Hibis
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- 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.