Document Sealing
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Mud. H. 2 cm (13/16 in.); w. 2.2 cm (7/8 in.); 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.
A small, roughly oval clod of dark gray mud bearing an impressed seal impression with partially legible hieroglyphic signs.
The image shows a compact, irregular lump of material (consistent with a mud sealing) photographed against a light background. One face of the lump preserves an impressed register of signs: a curved/arched motif at upper left, and several vertical and block-like marks at center and right that resemble grouped hieroglyphs, though the full sequence is not fully legible due to surface wear and pitting. No cartouche shape is clearly preserved, and no clear figurative deities or royal iconography can be confidently identified. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The object’s edges are chipped and the impression is shallow in places, indicating a worn sealing impression rather than a sharply carved stamp.
Inscriptions (1)
Visible text (machine reading)
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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.
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