Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · vessel

Vessel

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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.

Photograph of a small orange-red pottery vessel fragment shown on a dark background with a scale label. The fragment has an incised/painted small hieroglyph-like marking cluster on one face.

The image shows a broken piece of a pottery vessel (likely the body rim/shard of a small vessel) with a terracotta/orange-red surface and a lighter underside/break edge. On the upper face there is a short row or cluster of red markings with what appear to be incised/painted sign elements resembling simple hieroglyph-like forms (not clearly identifiable to specific Gardiner codes from the photo resolution). No complete vessel profile is visible. A ruler-and-museum label scale is included in the lower portion of the image; no readable Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is apparent.

daily life Predynastic Period (per catalogue) fragmentary
Materials Pottery (terracotta/orange-red slip)
Signs incised/painted sign cluster (unidentified) ×5
Visible text "Unclear cluster of red/black sign elements; exact transcription not legible from the image."

Connections

Found at Armant

Cross-references (3)

  • Manchester-Accession 10183 tier-2
  • Manchester-IRN 107605 tier-2
  • Manchester-UUID 42556c4a-a6a5-3452-b03b-3d24f26c0641 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.