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 inscriptions in black ink.
The artifact is a fragment of pottery, possibly from an ancient Egyptian vessel, bearing inscriptions drawn with black ink. The inscriptions appear to include a combination of hieratic script and possibly some numeric annotations or marks. The shard is reddish-brown in color, indicating it may be terracotta or a similar ceramic material, typical of ancient pottery used for both mundane and ritual purposes.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
terracotta
Signs
unknown ×3
Cross-references (3)
- Manchester-Accession 10115 tier-2
- Manchester-IRN 107658 tier-2
- Manchester-UUID ee2e4fd5-fe6f-3796-aa7c-6ddf07451263 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.