Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · papyrus
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AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A pottery shard with visible dark ink inscriptions.
The image depicts a fragment of pottery, likely used as part of an administrative or everyday document, showcasing dark ink inscriptions on its surface. The shard is irregularly shaped, with a clear text field. The composition suggests it once was part of a larger object, possibly used for recording in a domestic or bureaucratic setting.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
pottery
Signs
unknown ×5
Visible text
"unclear"
Cross-references (3)
- Manchester-Accession 6132 tier-2
- Manchester-IRN 106734 tier-2
- Manchester-UUID 56bf23c8-e8bb-36da-873a-27911766eb50 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.