Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · vessel
Vessel
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, irregular fragment of a handmade vessel/pottery is shown lying on a dark surface with a measurement scale beneath it.
The object appears as a broken pottery sherd with reddish-brown to tan exterior surfaces. The fragment is small and lacks visible decoration, glaze, or clear manufacturing features beyond the curved ceramic body. A white label with the University of Manchester branding and a ruler with centimeter markings (0–5 cm) are included for scale. No legible hieroglyphs or other script are visible on the sherd, and no cartouches, royal names, or iconography are apparent.
daily life
Predynastic Period (as catalogued; surface features on the sherd are insufficient to confirm more precisely from the image alone)
fragmentary
Materials
ceramic/pottery
Connections
Found at
Armant
Cross-references (3)
- Manchester-Accession 10258 tier-2
- Manchester-IRN 106521 tier-2
- Manchester-UUID d0ab0224-e9aa-33c8-a083-805b58b816b7 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection.
- 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.