Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · ostracon
Ostracon Late Period–Ptolemaic PeriodHibis
Description
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 B.C. Pottery, ink. 8.8 x 3.4 x 1 cm (3 7/16 x 1 5/16 x 3/8 in.). From: Hibis, Western Desert; Kharga Oasis, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1908–10. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1925.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Connections
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Hibis
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- 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.