Ostracon
Description
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 B.C. Pottery, ink. 5.4 x 7.2 x 3 cm (2 1/8 x 2 13/16 x 1 3/16 in.). From: Hibis, Western Desert; Kharga Oasis, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1908–10. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1925.
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 fragment on a light gray background.
The image shows a reddish-orange ceramic ostracon fragment with a worn, uneven break on the left edge and a flatter surface on top. Faint, dark marks consistent with deteriorated ink are visible on the front face, but no clearly legible hieroglyphs, Greek, or Coptic/Arabic text can be confidently identified at this resolution. No cartouche, deity figure, or other iconography is clearly visible.
About this record's data
- 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.