Brick Stamped with the Cone Seal of Pasanesut
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Pottery. H. 5.5 cm (2 3/16 in.); W. 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.); preserved D. 12.5 cm (4 15/16 in.). From: Tomb MMA Ḫ 2 A, sloping passage, Khokha, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1911. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1915.
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(MET-Object 576179).
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- MMA 15.10.37 PNM text
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, rectangular sun-dried or fired clay brick with a stamped circular/oval impression on its face, likely from a cone-seal or seal matrix.
The object is a low-relief fragment of a brick with rounded edges and a rough, granular clay surface. On the upper face there is a distinct stamp impression: a large rounded, oval/circular field with inner raised lines, resembling the track of a cone seal pressed into wet clay. The stamp is not accompanied by clearly readable hieroglyphic signs in the provided view; any incised text appears too unclear to transcribe. No cartouches, royal names, deities, or other iconography can be confidently identified from the image. The overall surface shows firing/scuffing and minor breaks, consistent with a fragment or abraded brick. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.
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Cross-references (5)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251873 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.10.37 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 576179 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- PNM-Object pnm:83907994 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.