Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · ostracon
Ostracon Late Period–Ptolemaic PeriodHibis
Description
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 B.C. Stone, ink. 7.1 x 8.7 x 2.5 cm (2 13/16 x 3 7/16 x 1 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.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Multiple lines of hieroglyphic signs in dark ink; individual signs too eroded to transcribe reliably.
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- 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.
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