Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · vessel

Vessel

Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, acc. 10115. See the source record for rights. Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 10115
Find spot: Armant, Upper Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Predynastic Period
Date: Predynastic Period
Date range: 4500 BCE – 3100 BCE
Materials: ['Pottery']
Height: 3.9 cm
Width: 6.8 cm
Repository: Manchester Museum
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Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, Vessel (10115). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/17777

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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.

Photograph of a small, triangular reddish ceramic/pottery vessel sherd with faint painted or incised marks resembling hieroglyphic signs on its surface.

The image shows a single pottery fragment lying on a dark, textured background, photographed from above at a slight angle. The sherd has a reddish-brown exterior with smoothed/formed surfaces consistent with a vessel body fragment. Faint linear and sign-like marks are visible near the center-left; they are not clear enough to confidently identify as specific Egyptian hieroglyphs. A measurement scale with a “MANCHESTER 1824” label and a cm ruler appears below the sherd, indicating the cataloguing context of the photo. No royal cartouches, deities, or clearly legible hieroglyphic text are confidently identifiable from the provided image. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.

daily life Predynastic Period (per catalogue; image does not allow secure independent dating) fragmentary

Materials ceramic/pottery (reddish clay body)

Signs unidentified sign-like marks (possibly hieroglyphic/painted symbols) ×4

Visible text "[unreadable/unidentified] faint sign-like marks; no clear transliteration possible"

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

[unreadable/unidentified] faint sign-like marks; no clear transliteration possible

Connections

Found at Armant

Cross-references (3)

Manchester-Accession 10115 tier-2
Manchester-IRN 107658 tier-2
Manchester-UUID ee2e4fd5-fe6f-3796-aa7c-6ddf07451263 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.