Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · papyrus

Ostracon

Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, acc. 6132. See the source record for rights. Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 6132
Find spot: Haraga, Lower Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Middle Kingdom
Date: Middle Kingdom
Date range: 2055 BCE – 1650 BCE
Materials: ['Pottery']
Height: 16.2 cm
Width: 14.2 cm
Repository: Manchester Museum
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Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, Ostracon (6132). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/16837

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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 reddish pottery fragment (ostracon) with a small red-ink hieroglyphic inscription visible on the front surface.

The image shows a small, rectangular-to-trapezoidal shard of fired clay with a sandy orange-red fabric. The surface has a few pale hairline cracks and an overall matte finish. Near the upper right area there is a short line of red painted marks resembling a limited hieroglyphic sign group; the exact characters are not fully legible from the photograph. No other text scripts (Greek/Coptic/Arabic) are clearly visible. A modern scale label with the word “MANCHESTER” is present in the lower portion of the image but is not part of the ancient artifact.

hieroglyphic only Middle Kingdom (catalogue ground truth) fragmentary

Materials fired pottery (ostracon/shard)red paint/ink

Signs unknown red-painted hieroglyphic sign group (inscription fragment) ×2

Visible text "Unclear/illegible red-painted hieroglyphic marks near upper right; exact transcription not possible from the image."

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Found at Haraga

Materials Pottery

Cross-references (3)

Manchester-Accession 6132 tier-2
Manchester-IRN 106734 tier-2
Manchester-UUID 56bf23c8-e8bb-36da-873a-27911766eb50 tier-2

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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.