Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · vessel

Vessel

Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, acc. 10321. See the source record for rights. Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 10321
Find spot: Armant, Upper Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Predynastic Period
Date: Predynastic Period
Date range: 4500 BCE – 3100 BCE
Materials: ['Pottery']
Height: 6.9 cm
Width: 6.4 cm
Repository: Manchester Museum
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Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, Vessel (10321). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/17717

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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 broken pottery vessel sherd with incised markings resembling early hieroglyphic signs on one face.

The image shows a small, irregular fragment consistent with a pottery vessel (likely a rim/body sherd). The fragment’s surface is light reddish-brown with breaks exposing a granular fabric. On the top/upper portion of the sherd there are dark, incised/painted linear marks arranged as several clustered signs; however, the individual signs are not clear enough to reliably read or assign specific Gardiner codes. A museum label and a ruler are visible in the foreground; no Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible on the object itself.

photographic documentation Predynastic Period (catalogue ground truth); exact sub-period uncertain from image alone. fragmentary

Materials Pottery (ceramic sherd)

Signs unclear grouped incised signs ×4

Visible text "Multiple short dark incised/painted sign-like marks in the upper portion of the sherd; exact reading unclear."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Multiple short dark incised/painted sign-like marks in the upper portion of the sherd; exact reading unclear.

Connections

Found at Armant

Materials Pottery

Cross-references (3)

Manchester-Accession 10321 tier-2
Manchester-IRN 107644 tier-2
Manchester-UUID d9002381-6314-366f-bc8b-f2e33fb27d61 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.