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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. 1.5 cm (9/16 in.); w. 1.2 cm (1/2 in.); th. 0.9 cm (3/8 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.

Small, roughly rectangular lump of dark gray mud with an impressed oval/seal-like design on one face.

The image shows a compact fragment of mud (thumb-sized, irregular block) photographed against a white background. On the upper/front face there is an incised/impressed motif: within an oval field, two tall, curved elements with a central vertical stroke are visible, resembling part of an inscription or throne-name cartouche impressed into the sealing clay. Edges are broken and the surface is eroded, making the individual hieroglyphs difficult to distinguish beyond the general shape of a bordered oval and a few vertical/curved sign forms. No clear painted decoration is visible; the entire object appears as a single mud material with surface impression only. No deities are explicitly identifiable from the visible sign shapes. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.

decorative New Kingdom (18th Dynasty), as per catalogue; inscription/signs too fragmentary to refine further from the image alone. fragmentary
Royals Amenhotep III (throne name cartouche)
Materials mud
Signs Impressed cartouche/bordered oval with partial vertical and curved elements (exact signs unclear)
Visible text "Oval/cartouche-like impressed area with partial vertical and curved sign elements; exact throne-name text illegible in this image due to erosion and incomplete capture."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Oval/cartouche-like impressed area with partial vertical and curved sign elements; exact throne-name text illegible in this image due to erosion and incomplete capture.

Connections

Found at Malqata
Deities Horus
Royals Amenhotep III
Materials Mud
About this record's data
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  • 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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