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Inscribed Pot Fragment

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Description

Jar label. Second Intermediate Period–Early New Kingdom, Dynasty 17–18, ca. 1580–1479 B.C. Pottery, ink. H. 20 cm (7 7/8 in.). From: Pit MMA 1017, embalming cache, Southern Asasif, unfinished temple area, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1920–22. Credit: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922.

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.

A beige/brown pottery sherd with a small, partially preserved area of dark ink painting and what appears to be a boxed numeral-like sign near the upper right.

The image shows a roughly triangular pottery fragment photographed against a neutral gray background. The surface is light tan to brown with minor pitting and abrasions. In the upper right portion, a dark ink sign is visible, including a boxed element containing a curved stroke and a dot-like mark. Near the lower left area, faint dark marks are present but are too fragmentary to read confidently. No clear cartouche frame or royal names are identifiable. No evidence of carved decoration (as opposed to ink) is visible. The ink/pigment is the only clear non-fabric material present.

hieroglyphic only Second Intermediate Period–Early New Kingdom (per catalogue; inscription too fragmentary to refine). fragmentary
Materials potteryink
Signs boxed/encircled numeral-like sign (exact form unclear)
Visible text "Upper right: small boxed sign with curved stroke and a dot-like element (exact transcription unknown). Lower left: faint ink marks (unreadable)."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Upper right: small boxed sign with curved stroke and a dot-like element (exact transcription unknown). Lower left: faint ink marks (unreadable).

Connections

Found at Asasif
Materials PotteryInk

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116448144 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 22.3.364 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 555889 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.