Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Ostracon with hieratic inscription
Description
Limestone, shaly, 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.
An ancient Egyptian ostracon with handwritten text.
The image shows a fragment of an ostracon with ink inscriptions. The text is written in a flowing script, typical of the cursive used in documents and informal writings. The ink is dark against the lighter surface of the pottery shard, with clear signs of aging on the ceramic material.
daily life
New Kingdom
good
Materials
pottery
Signs
unknown ×5
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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.