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.

A small, broken pottery vessel sherd photographed on a dark background with a scale ruler in the foreground.

The image shows a fragment of a ceramic vessel (sherd) with an uneven, chipped rim/edge and a partially preserved interior/exterior surface. The surface appears reddish-brown to tan in areas, consistent with fired clay; weathering and abrasion are visible. No clear painted decoration, incision, or relief is distinguishable on the fragment at this resolution. A Manchester Museum label strip with the text “MANCHESTER” and “1824” appears above a ruler marked in centimeters (0–5 visible). No hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic inscription is visible on the artifact itself; the only legible text in the image is the museum/scale label.

daily life Predynastic Period (per catalogue) fragmentary
Materials Pottery (ceramic/clay)

Connections

Found at Armant

Cross-references (3)

  • Manchester-Accession 10170 tier-2
  • Manchester-IRN 107589 tier-2
  • Manchester-UUID 4d0bce1d-8fcf-3fbb-98f5-1446f9aef17b 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.