Ostracon with hieratic inscription
Description
New Kingdom, Ramesside–Late Period, Dynasty 19–26, ca. 1295–525 B.C. Limestone, ink. H. 9.2 × W. 12.7 × D. 2.5 cm (3 5/8 × 5 × 1 in.). From: East of Pabasa, Radim, Asasif, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1918–19. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1919.
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- MMA 19.3.26 PNM textAsasif
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
Fragment of a limestone ostracon bearing multiple lines of dark ink hieratic signs across the surface.
The object is a broken, irregular limestone fragment with one main face covered in dense, horizontally oriented ink writing in hieratic. The ink forms several rows of cursive/non-figural characters; individual sign shapes are visible but too incomplete for secure identification of specific words, royal names, or number/date formulas. No figurative scenes, figures, or deities are depicted—only writing. The background limestone is light beige/gray, with slight surface irregularities from breakage and weathering. The catalogue’s description of an inked hieratic inscription is consistent with what is visible.
Inscriptions (1)
Visible text (machine reading)
Cross-references (1)
- PNM-Object pnm:83914459 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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.