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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. 1.6 cm (5/8 in.); w. 1 cm (3/8 in.); maximum th. 0.9 cm (3/8 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.

Small gray clay (mud) fragment bearing an impressed sign resembling a cartouche/royal-name setting.

The image shows a roughly rectangular, thick fragment of fired/aged mud/clay with a darkened, granular surface. One face contains an impressed hieroglyphic motif: a partial enclosing oval/cartouche-like outline with internal marks, though the exact individual signs are not fully legible due to damage and low contrast. No figural scenes are visible. Background is plain and the fragment appears photographed in isolation.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom (consistent with the catalogue’s New Kingdom attribution); exact reign not securely readable from the photograph. fragmentary
Materials mud/clay (gray, granular)
Signs Cartouche/royal-name cartouche outline with internal marks (impressed)
Visible text "Impressed hieroglyphic/cartouche-like royal-name motif; individual signs unreadable in the provided image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Impressed hieroglyphic/cartouche-like royal-name motif; individual signs unreadable in the provided image.

Connections

Found at Malqata
Royals Amenhotep III
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.