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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. 31 cm ( 12 3/16 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 small, broken fragment of an inscribed clay vessel with traces of reddish-brown ink or pigment forming a short line of marks near the lower right.

The image shows a single conical/trapezoidal pottery fragment, viewed from one face. The surface is tan/yellowish and shows firing/age discoloration and minor pitting. A thin, dark reddish-brown line of painted/inked marks appears near the lower right edge; the rest of the fragment is largely unmarked at the shown resolution. No legible full signs, cartouches, or deity names can be confirmed from the visible portion. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. The fragment’s break edges and a slight surface seam suggest it is part of a larger vessel form; the visible marks are consistent with an inscribed pot fragment, though the exact content is unclear.

funerary Second Intermediate Period–Early New Kingdom (as catalogued); exact period uncertain from image alone. fragmentary
Materials pottery (clay)reddish-brown ink or pigment (painted inscription)
Signs short painted/inked hieroglyph-like strokes (unreadable at this resolution)
Visible text "Unreadable short painted marks near lower right; no confident transcription possible."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Unreadable short painted marks near lower right; no confident transcription possible.

Connections

Found at Asasif
Materials Pottery

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116431288 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 22.3.363 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 555891 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.