Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Mud. H. 1.5 cm (9/16 in.); w. 1.6 cm (5/8 in.); th. 0.4 cm (3/16 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, broken lump of fired/clay material bearing stamped incised marks consistent with a document-sealing impression.
The image shows a compact, irregular fragment of clay (mud) with a rough, broken surface. One face contains a shallow rectangular band-like border and within it several dark incised strokes/marks that resemble hieroglyphic signs or a royal titulary layout, though the individual signs are too worn/blurry to read confidently. No figures of deities, clear cartouches, or legible full inscriptions are distinguishable at this resolution. The remainder of the object is uninscribed and damaged, with chipped edges and a mottled gray-brown surface. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.
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.