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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. 2 cm (13/16 in.); w. 2.5 cm (1 in.); th. 0.9 cm (3/8 in.). From: King's Palace, West magazine, 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, dark gray mud lump or sealing fragment with an impressed oval/rounded cartouche-like mark on one face.

The image shows a small, irregular piece of dark gray material consistent with mud. One side preserves a recessed, stamp-like impression: a rounded/oval field containing vertical and curved strokes resembling hieroglyphic sign forms (possibly part of a throne name/cartouche impression). The surrounding edges are rough and the artifact appears broken, with most detail limited to the central impressed area. No figures of deities are visible, and no clear accompanying text beyond the impressed sign pattern can be read. The overall form and single impressed face are consistent with a document sealing or stamp impression fragment rather than a standalone inscription panel.

unclear New Kingdom (consistent with catalogue) fragmentary
Royals Amenhotep III (implied by catalogue; exact throne name not legible in image)
Materials mud
Signs Uncertain impressed hieroglyphic/cartouche-like sign group
Visible text "Impressed sign pattern in a rounded/oval seal area; specific throne-name text not clearly legible at this resolution."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Impressed sign pattern in a rounded/oval seal area; specific throne-name text not clearly legible at this resolution.

Connections

Found at Malqata
Deities Thoth
Royals Amenhotep III
Materials Mud
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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.
  • 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.