Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · vessel

Vessel

Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, acc. 10120. See the source record for rights. Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 10120
Find spot: Armant, Upper Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Predynastic Period
Date: Predynastic Period
Date range: 4500 BCE – 3100 BCE
Materials: ['Pottery']
Height: 7.4 cm
Width: 9.3 cm
Repository: Manchester Museum
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Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, Vessel (10120). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/17457

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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, roughly shaped stone/pottery vessel fragment with a partially visible incised inscription or marks near one edge.

The image shows a single vessel fragment photographed against a dark background. The object has an irregular, rounded form and appears to be made from a hard material with a mottled surface consistent with pottery or stone; its edges are worn. Near the lower-left area, there are several dark, engraved/painted characters or marks that resemble a short inscription, but they are too unclear to confidently read. No legible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. No clearly identifiable royal cartouche is present.

decorative Predynastic Period (per catalogue; image details insufficient for independent confirmation). fragmentary

Materials pottery (per catalogue; visual appearance also consistent with stone/limestone fragment—unclear)

Signs incised/painted sign cluster ×4

Visible text "Unclear short incised/painted character cluster near lower-left; exact letters not readable."

Connections

Found at Armant

Cross-references (3)

Manchester-Accession 10120 tier-2
Manchester-IRN 107046 tier-2
Manchester-UUID 58db3e04-8c36-3ccf-9dbd-2d282958c08b 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.