Sealing
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 small, irregular gray clay sealing fragment impressed with a rounded cartouche-like or sign field containing a large, partially legible glyph or set of glyphs.
The object appears as a compact, hand-sized piece of gray clay with a rough, weathered surface. One face has an impressed design: the central motif forms an arched/rectangular band with a prominent horizontal element and smaller surrounding incised marks, resembling an inscription field or cartouche-like sign area. The relief is shallow and abraded, making individual hieroglyphs difficult to distinguish with confidence. No clear Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. No explicit deity iconography can be reliably identified from the damaged sign forms.
Inscriptions (1)
Visible text (machine reading)
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.