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.

The image shows two conjoining fragments of an orange-red pottery vessel body resting on a dark background, with a small incised or stamped black mark/number on the surface.

Two broken pieces join at the center, forming a partial vessel sherd. The fragments are orange-red with a textured ceramic surface and visible breaks along the edges. A dark marking resembling a handwritten/inked number (appearing like “1231”) is present on the right-hand fragment. No clear painted decoration, vessel rim, base, or spout is visible. A numbered scale/label card from the Manchester Museum appears in the lower portion of the image; it contains text such as “MANCHESTER” and “The University of Manchester / The Manchester Museum” plus a ruler with centimeter marks. No Egyptian hieroglyphs, cartouches, or identifiable deities are visible on the sherd itself.

decorative Predynastic Period (as per catalogue; image only shows pottery sherds—exact sub-period unclear). fragmentary
Materials ceramic/pottery
Signs incised/stamped or inked numerals (unclear exact reading; appears like “1231”)

Connections

Found at Hammamiya

Cross-references (3)

  • Manchester-Accession 7723 tier-2
  • Manchester-IRN 106781 tier-2
  • Manchester-UUID 333290a9-8d56-3757-88e8-ad7b91ef6090 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.