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. 0.6 cm (1/4 in.). From: King's Palace, West magazine, 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, broken lump of fired or baked mud/clay bearing incised or impressed marks along its surface.
The image shows a roughly oval, irregular lump of dark gray material with a damaged outer surface. The top and sides are weathered and fractured, and within a recessed area there appear to be impressed/incised vertical elements that could correspond to a short line or sign group. No complete cartouche, throne name, or clearly legible hieroglyphs can be confirmed from the photograph, though the presence of carved/impressed strokes suggests it functioned as a document sealing with an inscription impression. No pigment, metal, or fibrous inclusions are clearly visible. The object is photographed against a plain light background; no additional markings (Greek/Coptic/Arabic) or museum labels appear in-frame.
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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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