Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · seal

Seal

Source of record: Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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.

Two circular clay sealing fragments with carved linear patterns.

The image shows two circular clay seals with linear, abstract carvings. The seals appear to have geometric designs that might represent early writing or symbolic motifs. The style suggests utilitarian or administrative use, possibly for securing goods or documents.

hieroglyphic only unknown good
Materials clay

Connections

Found at Aswan (Syene)
Materials StoneClay

Cross-references (3)

  • Manchester-Accession 6258 tier-2
  • Manchester-IRN 107458 tier-2
  • Manchester-UUID b62270df-28cd-38d5-8c9b-fba624448a8b tier-2
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  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection.
  • 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.