Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Hieratic ostracon recording the accession of Seti II

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Limestone, paint

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.

This is a fragment of an ancient Egyptian stone artifact with inscriptions.

The artifact is a stone fragment featuring black ink inscriptions. The text consists of several lines of hieratic script, which are neatly organized across the stone surface. The style indicates functional use, likely for record-keeping or literature. Despite its fragmentary nature, the inscriptions are well-preserved and readable.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials limestone
Signs w ×3 nfr ×2
Visible text "nfr"

Connections

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116244994 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 14.6.217 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545194 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.