Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · vessel

Vessel

Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, acc. 7698. See the source record for rights. Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 7698
Find spot: Hammamiya, Upper Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Predynastic Period
Date: Predynastic Period
Date range: 4500 BCE – 3100 BCE
Materials: ['Pottery']
Height: 8.5 cm
Width: 7.6 cm
Repository: Manchester Museum
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Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, Vessel (7698). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/17158

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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.

The image shows a small, broken stone/ceramic fragment with a few incised marks that resemble handwritten numerals or short script-like lines. No complete vessel form is visible.

The object is photographed against a dark background. It appears to be a thick fragment with irregular edges; a central face shows faded, dark markings in a loose rectangular area. The markings look like short incised/painted lines rather than a clear, formal hieroglyphic inscription. A label with a scale (centimeter markings) and the museum nameplate (“MANCHESTER … 1824”) is visible beneath the fragment, but this is modern catalog/collection text rather than on-object inscription. The photograph does not reveal a recognizable complete vessel profile (e.g., rim, base, or handle), only the fragment itself. No legible Greek/Coptic/Arabic is visible.

unclear Predynastic Period (catalogue ground truth; object form not clearly confirmable from image) fragmentary

Materials stone (unclear whether pottery)

Signs Incised/painted numerals or abstract marks (not legible as hieroglyphs)

Visible text "Illegible short incised marks/numerals; no clear hieroglyphic text readable."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Illegible short incised marks/numerals; no clear hieroglyphic text readable.

Connections

Found at Hammamiya

Cross-references (3)

Manchester-Accession 7698 tier-2
Manchester-IRN 106787 tier-2
Manchester-UUID 7cb9fdf1-1a78-34e6-9819-e7328f09d8a3 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.