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 an ancient Egyptian text written on a papyrus or ostracon.
The image shows a piece of ostracon with hieratic text written in black ink. This writing style is cursive and typical for administrative or literary documents. The piece appears aged with uneven edges, suggesting it’s a fragment of a larger document. Most text lines are horizontal, with hieratic signs closely packed together, demonstrating the efficient use of space.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
reed leaf ×3
water ripple ×2
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.