Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · vessel

Vessel

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.

A small, square/rectangular gray ceramic pottery fragment is photographed on a dark surface beside a scale label.

The image shows a broken piece of a pottery vessel (surface gray and matte, with worn edges suggesting fragmentation). No clear vessel profile (rim, base, or handle) is fully visible due to the fragmentary condition. A measuring scale with a label reading “MANCH…/Manchester” is placed in the lower part of the image for size reference. No visible hieroglyphic inscription, cartouches, deity figures, or other iconography can be identified on the artifact surface in this low-resolution view. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.

daily life Predynastic Period (catalogue ground truth; image alone is inconclusive) fragmentary
Materials ceramic/pottery

Connections

Found at Hammamiya

Cross-references (3)

  • Manchester-Accession 7696 tier-2
  • Manchester-IRN 106784 tier-2
  • Manchester-UUID 0750287a-f5bc-38bb-b0a7-662ee783ff2b 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.