Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Ostracon with hieratic inscription
Description
Limestone, ink
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.
A fragment of inscribed limestone with hieratic script.
The artifact is a fragment of limestone featuring a series of vertical and horizontal lines of hieratic script, written in black ink. The craftsmanship suggests it was used for administrative, educational, or literary purposes. Its form is irregular, and the texture of the limestone surface is visibly rough.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
hieratic text ×8
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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.