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, dark, clay sealing fragment with an impressed rectangular area containing vertical incised signs.
The image shows a broken piece of baked/unbaked-looking clay (dark gray to black) shaped as a compact sealing. On one face there is an impressed/embossed rectangular field with multiple vertical strokes and curved lines suggesting hieroglyphic or seal-impression text. The remainder of the object is rough and irregular due to fragmentation. No clearly readable royal name, deity name, or complete inscription is visible at this resolution; the impressed signs are partially worn/obscured by damage.
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.