Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · vessel

Vessel

Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, acc. 7570. See the source record for rights. Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 7570
Find spot: Hammamiya, Upper Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Predynastic Period
Date: Predynastic Period
Date range: 4500 BCE – 3100 BCE
Materials: ['Pottery']
Height: 5.9 cm
Width: 6.5 cm
Repository: Manchester Museum
At source: View original →

Cite & export

Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, Vessel (7570). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/17243

JSON →

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.

Photograph of a small broken ceramic vessel sherd photographed against a dark background with a scale label in view.

The image shows a single fragment of a pottery vessel: a curved, thick ceramic piece with a reddish-brown exterior and lighter interior/midsection. The surface appears weathered and slightly pitted, with a rough break edge suggesting it is a sherd rather than a whole vessel. No painted decoration, relief, or intact vessel rim is visible. A museum label and ruler-like scale are placed below the fragment; the label includes the word “MANCHESTER” and “1824,” but this is modern printed text, not ancient writing. No hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic inscriptions are legible on the artifact fragment itself.

daily life Predynastic Period (as catalogued); image shows an uninscribed pottery sherd consistent with early ceramic fragments, but exact sub-period cannot be confirmed from this view. fragmentary

Materials Pottery/ceramic (reddish-brown with lighter core)

Connections

Found at Hammamiya

Cross-references (3)

Manchester-Accession 7570 tier-2
Manchester-IRN 106804 tier-2
Manchester-UUID b098836f-de53-35a2-9712-f367c403f35a 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.