Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · vessel
Vessel
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 pottery with some marked inscriptions.
The image depicts a broken piece of pottery, often referred to as an ostracon, which has inscriptions on one side. The pottery appears worn and is covered in a light reddish-brown color. The fragment's irregular shape suggests it was part of a larger object. The inscriptions might have been recorded for administrative, literary, or communication purposes, common in ancient Egypt. Additionally, measured with a ruler, the fragment is documented for scale.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
ceramic
Visible text
"R20 24/1c60 [b]a90"
Cross-references (3)
- Manchester-Accession 10130 tier-2
- Manchester-IRN 107675 tier-2
- Manchester-UUID bc6c135b-82e9-3036-8315-035c6ee16e82 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.