Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Mud. H. 2.1 cm (13/16 in.); w. 3.3 cm (1 5/16 in.); th. 1 cm (3/8 in.). Presumably from: Southern rubbish mounds. 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 lump of mud/clay with an oval recess containing several impressed marks/seal impressions.
The image shows a fragmentary, roughly oval/oblong mass of dried mud/clay photographed against a light background. One end is thicker with a depression or cavity shaped like an oval containing a series of impressed strokes/mark-like characters. The overall surface is rough and granular, consistent with mud/clay. The impressed marks are not sufficiently clear to identify specific hieroglyphs, a royal name, or a known sign group. No readable Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. No deity figures are depicted—only an impressed seal-like device/marks.
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.