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Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian) · vessel

alabastron

Source of record: Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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.

Photograph of a small, rounded Egyptian vessel shaped like an alabastron, with a narrow neck and two side handles/projections. A vertical line of inked black marks resembling hieroglyphic characters appears on the front.

The object is a tan to light brown ceramic/stone vessel with a bulbous body, a slightly flared, rounded top opening, and two small symmetrical lateral protrusions near the upper body that resemble handles or attachment points. The base is rounded. On the front face there is a vertical band of black-painted signs/characters; the visible portion includes the sequence that looks like multiple hieroglyphic-style strokes, but the exact reading is not sufficiently clear to confidently identify specific signs. No clear cartouche, royal name, deity figure, or cartouche frame is visible. No additional Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. The surface shows wear and discoloration, suggesting age and/or handling.

decorative unknown good
Materials unknown mineral/stone or ceramic (alabastron vessel body)
Signs hieroglyphic-style strokes (unidentified) ×6
Visible text "Vertical line of black ink/painted characters; legibility too low for a reliable reading (appears like "...79-19" or similar when visually approximated)."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Vertical line of black ink/painted characters; legibility too low for a reliable reading (appears like "...79-19" or similar when visually approximated).

Connections

Materials Alabaster
About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian).
  • 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.