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 pottery shard with ink inscriptions.
The image depicts a fragment of pottery, known as an ostracon, which bears ink inscriptions. The shard appears triangular and is inscribed with a combination of numbers and letters. The texture of the pottery is evident, indicating use in antiquity.
modern replica
unknown
modern_reproduction
Materials
ceramic
Visible text
"8:5 II 06X"
Cross-references (3)
- Manchester-Accession 10137 tier-2
- Manchester-IRN 107687 tier-2
- Manchester-UUID 1bbfa9ea-1a1d-3260-96da-d733abcc130e 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.