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 limestone with black painted hieratic script.
This artifact is a fragmentary piece of limestone featuring hieratic script in black ink. The script is painted rather than carved, indicating it was used for record-keeping or administrative purposes. The surface is worn, but the text is clearly legible, revealing insights into the scribal practices of the time.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
peret ×3
nefer
Visible text
"ˁḫ"
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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.
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