Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · other

Plumb-bob

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

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 small, ancient Egyptian pottery vessel on display with measuring scales.

The image depicts a small, rounded pottery vessel, likely used in ancient Egyptian daily life or ceremonies. The vessel has a narrow neck with a small opening, characteristic of early Egyptian pottery used for storing liquids. Surrounding the vessel are measurement scales and a color chart for documentation purposes.

daily life unknown good
Materials pottery

Connections

Materials StoneClayPottery

Cross-references (3)

  • Manchester-Accession 104.b tier-2
  • Manchester-IRN 106696 tier-2
  • Manchester-UUID 1dc25a77-9f69-3ea2-abb6-7059cbe0776d 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.