Ostracon
Description
Caption: Ostracon, Year 23, Epeiph 30. Terracotta, pigment, 2 1/4 x 3/8 x 5 7/16 in. (5.7 x 1 x 13.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1856E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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 fragment of ancient pottery with an inventory number.
The image shows a triangular piece of pottery with a red inventory number '37.1856 L' painted on its surface. The pottery fragment appears to be made of terracotta with a rough texture. There are no visible decorative elements or inscriptions on the shard beyond the inventory marking. The context or specific origin of the pottery is not clear from this image.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1856E tier-2
- BKM-Object 4185 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- 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.