Coptic Ostracon
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Coptic Ostracon, 395–642 C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 4 7/16 x 7/8 x 6 1/4 in. (11.2 x 2.2 x 15.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1823E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with Index of Christian Art, Princeton University))
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A fragment of a pottery shard with cursive script.
The artifact is a pottery shard inscribed with Greek cursive script. The fragment is uneven and worn, indicating it may have been part of a larger vessel. The text is written in dark ink, possibly carbon-based, which has been partially preserved despite the rough surface.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1823E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118341 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- 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.