Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · vessel

Vessel

Source of record: Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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 terracotta pottery vessel fragment shown against a dark background with a museum scale label.

The image depicts a rectangular, broken piece of fired clay/pottery with curved interior curvature suggesting it is part of a larger vessel. The fragment has a plain, unpainted surface (no clear decoration visible) and shows minor surface discoloration consistent with age or firing. In the upper portion there is red-brown handwritten/inked labeling on the pottery surface (appears to be inventory or registration text), not clearly forming hieroglyphs. A white museum label and a metric ruler scale are placed below the fragment for size reference. No carved hieroglyphs, cartouches, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic inscriptions are clearly legible in the photograph.

daily life Predynastic Period (per catalogue; image does not provide diagnostic dating features) fragmentary
Materials Pottery (terracotta/clay)
Visible text "Red-brown handwritten markings (exact characters unclear; not identified as hieroglyphic text)."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Red-brown handwritten markings (exact characters unclear; not identified as hieroglyphic text).

Connections

Found at Armant

Cross-references (3)

  • Manchester-Accession 10236 tier-2
  • Manchester-IRN 107710 tier-2
  • Manchester-UUID c846ae0d-2b41-3845-a5d5-4e9baeca6c47 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.