Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · other

Grinder

Source of record: Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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.

The image shows a small, handle-less stone implement or vessel-like object with a rounded, tapering form photographed against a dark background.

A single object is centered in the frame. It has a rounded, slightly flared top and a narrower base, giving it a conical/truncated shape. The surface appears smooth with subtle wear/scuffing; there are no visible carved decorative motifs or legible inscriptions on the photographed faces. A small scale label card is placed beneath the object, but no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is legible from the image. The cataloged subject as a “Grinder” is not contradicted by visible form, though the image does not show clear working edges or stone-on-stone grinding surfaces. No hieroglyphs, cartouches, or deity iconography are apparent.

daily life New Kingdom (per catalogue); object form alone not sufficient to confirm good
Materials stone (color/texture consistent with quartzite), exact type unclear

Connections

Cross-references (3)

  • Manchester-Accession 7217 tier-2
  • Manchester-IRN 106481 tier-2
  • Manchester-UUID bdd17a66-a779-3ee5-a304-bfb49a1ccc22 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.