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Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Mud. H. 2 cm (13/16 in.); w. 1.3 cm (1/2 in.); th. 0.5 cm (3/16 in.). From: West Villas, West Villa B, 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, wedge-shaped mud seal impression bearing a row of incised signs resembling hieroglyphs on the flattened face.

The object appears to be a fragmentary, conical/wedge-shaped piece of mud with a stamped or impressed surface on one end. The impressed side shows several vertical, incised strokes arranged in a compact band; the exact hieroglyph forms are not fully legible at this resolution. The remaining surfaces are rough and matte, consistent with fired or dried mud. No separate cartouche is clearly readable, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.

decorative New Kingdom (per catalogue) fragmentary
Royals Amenhotep III (throne name) — unclear/not legible in image
Materials mud
Signs hieroglyphic sign group (unclear) ×6
Visible text "Incised hieroglyph-like signs in a small band; specific royal/throne-name text not clearly readable from the image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Incised hieroglyph-like signs in a small band; specific royal/throne-name text not clearly readable from the image.

Connections

Found at Malqata
Royals Amenhotep III
Materials Mud
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.