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Inscribed Pot Fragment

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 22.3.366. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 22.3.366
Find spot: Southern Asasif, unfinished temple area, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Second Intermediate Period–Early New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 17–18
Date: ca. 1580–1479 B.C.
Date range: 1580 BCE – 1479 BCE
Materials: ['pottery', 'ink']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Description

Jar label. Second Intermediate Period–Early New Kingdom, Dynasty 17–18, ca. 1580–1479 B.C. Pottery, ink. H. 19.5 cm (7 11/16 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 terracotta pot sherd preserves a small painted or inked set of dark marks resembling a short line of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The image shows a broken, triangular-to-trapezoidal fragment of brownish terracotta pottery with a rough, pitted surface and visible break edges. Along one edge of the sherd, there is a small cluster of dark, ink-like strokes (including at least one hooked/angled sign shape) placed horizontally. No full signs, borders, or cartouches are clearly complete in the visible area, and the characters are not sufficient to securely identify specific words or a royal name. No figurative imagery is present. No additional non-Egyptian scripts (Greek/Coptic/Arabic) are visible.

hieroglyphic only Second Intermediate Period–Early New Kingdom (as catalogued); specific dating cannot be confirmed from the fragment alone. fragmentary

Materials potterydark ink/paint (hieroglyphic marks)

Signs unknowable hieroglyphic stroke/partial sign (hooked/angled shape)

Visible text "Partial, unclear hieroglyphic marks (exact reading not determinable from this image)."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Partial, unclear hieroglyphic marks (exact reading not determinable from this image).

Connections

Found at Asasif

Materials Pottery

Cross-references (4)

Wikidata-Q Q116431329 tier-1
Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
Inventory-Number 22.3.366 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
MET-Object 555929 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)

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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.
Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.