Document Sealing
Description
Sealing, falcon. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Mud. H. 1.5 cm (9/16 in.); w. 1.9 cm (3/4 in.); th. 0.5 cm (3/16 in.). From: no exact location recorded, 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 gray, irregular mud sealing fragment with a small impressed area showing partial incised characters or a stamp mark.
The image shows a single, irregularly shaped fragment of a dark gray material identified by the catalog as mud. The surface is rough and granular, consistent with fired or dried mud. On one side there is an impressed/indented rectangular-ish area containing partial dark lines and a curved element that could be the remnants of stamped hieroglyphic signs; however, the characters are incomplete and too unclear to reliably identify specific signs or a royal name. No distinct cartouche outline, deity iconography, or readable full inscription is clearly preserved. The background is plain, and no additional objects, colors, or attachments are visible.
Inscriptions (1)
Visible text (machine reading)
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.