Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · vessel

Vessel

Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, acc. 10299. See the source record for rights. Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 10299
Find spot: Armant, Upper Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Predynastic Period
Date: Predynastic Period
Date range: 4500 BCE – 3100 BCE
Materials: ['Pottery']
Height: 2.4 cm
Width: 2.0 cm
Repository: Manchester Museum
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Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, Vessel (10299). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/17710

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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 broken pottery vessel fragment is photographed next to a scale, with dark incised/painted decoration or possible short inscription-like marks on the surface.

The image shows a small, irregular ceramic fragment centered above a dark background. The piece appears to preserve part of a vessel wall with an area of incised or impressed decoration comprising several clustered lines and shapes; the exact reading as hieroglyphs is unclear due to the fragmentary condition and low resolution. A white label/scales board with printed text (“MANCHESTER”) and a ruler marked in centimeters (0–5) is placed beneath the object for measurement. No legible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. No clear royal cartouche or readable deity name is identifiable.

daily life Predynastic Period (as catalogued); specific dating unclear from the fragment. fragmentary

Materials Pottery/ceramic (broken fragment)

Connections

Found at Armant

Cross-references (3)

Manchester-Accession 10299 tier-2
Manchester-IRN 107611 tier-2
Manchester-UUID 310c7435-338a-3320-a0c0-11ea4721bfed 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.