Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · vessel

Vessel

Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, acc. 7729. See the source record for rights. Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 7729
Find spot: Hammamiya, Upper Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Predynastic Period
Date: Predynastic Period
Date range: 4500 BCE – 3100 BCE
Materials: ['Pottery']
Repository: Manchester Museum
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Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, Vessel (7729). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/17279

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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.

A small, reddish-brown ceramic vessel fragment with a rounded rim/body and faint incised markings on the interior surface.

The image shows a single pottery vessel fragment photographed against a dark background. Only part of the object is preserved: it appears to have a curved profile consistent with a small container, with a thicker rim area and a chipped exterior surface. Along the interior near the top edge there are small, dark incised or impressed marks that are too indistinct to reliably identify as specific hieroglyphs. No figures, deities, or royal cartouches are visible. A museum scale card with the text “MANCHESTER 1824” and ruler graduations is present in the foreground; no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible on the artifact itself.

daily life Predynastic Period (as catalogued); exact dating unclear from this single image. fragmentary

Materials Potteryceramicterracotta

Connections

Found at Hammamiya

Materials Pottery Terracotta Ceramic

Cross-references (3)

Manchester-Accession 7729 tier-2
Manchester-IRN 106825 tier-2
Manchester-UUID d688f967-7ca6-33dd-a70a-26a54820b709 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.