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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. 2.2 cm (7/8 in.); w. 1.8 cm (11/16 in.); th. 1.2 cm (1/2 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, dark/grey, roughly conical lump of mud bearing impressed Egyptian sign(s) and partial incised/relief-like markings.

The object appears as a compact, irregular lump consistent with a mud sealing. One face shows several large, impressed hieroglyph-like strokes forming at least three recognizable sign elements (including what looks like a vertical stroke with adjoining curved/angled elements). The remaining surface is rough and worn, with no clear full cartouche or complete throne-name visible at this resolution. No gilding or painted detail is apparent. The background is plain, and the photograph emphasizes the stamped/sign area on the upper-left/center of the lump.

funerary New Kingdom (catalogued); exact dynasty/reign unknown from image alone fragmentary
Materials mud
Signs partial hieroglyph-like impressed sign (unclear exact identification) ×3
Visible text "Impressed hieroglyph-like markings present but too incomplete/unclear to read the specific throne name of Amenhotep III from this image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Impressed hieroglyph-like markings present but too incomplete/unclear to read the specific throne name of Amenhotep III from this 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.