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, triangular reddish-brown pottery ostracon with faded black-brown ink marks arranged in a few horizontal lines on one face.
The object is a broken pottery sherd shaped roughly like a triangle. One side has several faint ink strokes forming traces of what may be hieroglyphic signs or cursive marks; the writing is heavily abraded and no individual sign can be reliably read. No clear figurative imagery or divine symbols are visible, and there are no legible Greek/Coptic/Arabic characters. The ink appears dark brown/black against the light reddish clay, consistent with an ostracon used for 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.