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.
Fragment of an ancient Egyptian papyrus or ostracon with text.
This image shows a fragmentary piece of what appears to be an ancient Egyptian papyrus or ostracon. The surface is covered with lines of hieratic script written in black ink. The fragment's edges are irregular, suggesting it was once part of a larger document. The script is neatly aligned, indicating it could have been a formal record or literary text.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
unknown ×20
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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.