Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · papyrus
Letter to Pachnoubis
Description
Caption: Letter to Pachnoubis, 2nd century C.E.. Terracotta, 3 5/8 x 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. (9.2 x 0.6 x 13.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Collection, X849. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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 pottery sherd with labels attached to its surface.
The image depicts a fragment of ancient pottery, commonly referred to as an ostracon, with adhesive labels affixed on one side. The pottery is reddish-brown in color, typical of Nile silt clay, with some surface wear indicating age. The labels appear modern, suggesting that the item has been cataloged for museum or scholarly purposes.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
clay
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession X849 tier-2
- BKM-Object 121165 tier-2
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- 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.