Document Sealing with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Mud. H. 1.7 cm (11/16 in.); w. 1.8 cm (11/16 in.); th. 1 cm (3/8 in.). From: Southern rubbish mounds, Malqata, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1910–12. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912.
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, roughly rectangular block of dark gray material bearing an incised hieroglyphic sign pattern on one face.
The image shows a compact, irregularly shaped fragment resembling a mud sealing or seal-impression blank. One side is decorated with an incised cluster of curved strokes forming part of a hieroglyphic inscription; the remaining surfaces are plain and worn. The incised marks appear too eroded/partial to reliably read a specific throne name or determine any cartouche boundary. No human, divine, or iconographic figures are visible—only abstract hieroglyph-like strokes on the decorated face. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. The overall preservation is fragmentary with surface pitting and cracking consistent with fired or dried mud.
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.