Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Clay jar sealing impressed faintly with name of Khasekhemwy Early Dynastic Period
Description
Sealing, jar. Early Dynastic Period, Dynasty 2, reign of Khasekhemui, ca. 2650 B.C. Clay (unfired). Probably from: Umm el-Qaab, Tomb of Khasekhemwy. Credit: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Faint impressed hieroglyphic signs; specific characters not reliably readable due to wear and breakage.
Connections
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.
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