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 fragmentary piece of limestone with black ink inscriptions.
The artifact is a fragment of limestone featuring inscriptions written in black ink. The writing includes arranged vertical and horizontal lines, typical of ostraca used for records or educational purposes in ancient Egypt. The surface is slightly worn, and the inscriptions might include numbers or lists.
daily life
Ptolemaic
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
number ×5
Visible text
"unclear"
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.