Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · seal

Sealing

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 14.3.282g. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 14.3.282g
Find spot: Lisht South, Memphite Region, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 12–13
Date: ca. 2030–1640 B.C.
Date range: 2030 BCE – 1640 BCE
Materials: ['clay (unfired)']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Sealing (14.3.282g). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/210294

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Description

Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12–13, ca. 2030–1640 B.C. Clay (unfired). From: Pyramid complex of Senwosret I, north temple gateway, Lisht South, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1913–14. Credit: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1914.

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 broken, flattened ceramic/clay sealing fragment with partial impressed markings and a rectangular field of faint incisions on its surface.

The image shows a grey, weathered fragment of what appears to be unfired clay shaped into a seal. Only part of the seal face survives: a roughly rectangular impressed/inscribed area is visible on the flatter side, with multiple short vertical or stroke-like impressions along the top and within the central field. No complete cartouche or fully legible hieroglyphic sequence is preserved; the marks are too fragmentary to reliably read specific signs. The opposite side is rough and broken, consistent with a degraded sealing. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. No clear deity iconography is discernible beyond the possibility of hieroglyphic signs in the impressed panel.

funerary Middle Kingdom (as catalogued); exact dynasty/regnal date unclear from the image fragmentary

Materials clay (unfired)stone-like grey surface/possible grit (unclear)

Signs unknown impressed vertical strokes / partial hieroglyphic signs ×10

Visible text "Partially preserved, illegible impressed strokes in a rectangular panel; no readable full word/cartouche preserved."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Partially preserved, illegible impressed strokes in a rectangular panel; no readable full word/cartouche preserved.

Connections

Found at Lisht

Materials Clay

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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.