Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Hieratic ostracon recording the accession of Seti II
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"
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.