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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. 2.3 cm (7/8 in.); w. 2.1 cm (13/16 in.); th. 1 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.

A broken, thumb-sized mud sealing impressed with a ring-like border and hieroglyphic signs in blackened/pressed relief.

The image shows a small, irregularly shaped lump of dark gray mud with a recessed/impressed inscription inside a rounded rectangular frame. Within the frame there is a prominent sign cluster that includes a seated-basket-like or “throne-name” style grouping that reads as “Amenhotep” in the middle of the band, with additional surrounding signs. The object is fragmentary and the surface is eroded, but the impressed hieroglyphs are clearly visible and centrally placed. No figures of deities or human persons are depicted; only hieroglyphic writing is present. No non-hieroglyphic text (Greek/Coptic/Arabic) is visible. The material appears consistent with mud seals typically used to record administrative documents.

decorative New Kingdom (likely 18th Dynasty, Amenhotep III era; exact reign attribution uncertain from this single image). fragmentary
Royals Amenhotep III
Materials mud
Signs Hieroglyphic throne-name cartouche/royal titulary elements (Amenhotep III implied by catalogue; partial reading visible) ×6
Visible text "Impressed hieroglyphic signs forming part of the royal name/throne-name; readable elements appear to include the sequence consistent with “Amenhotep” but the full transcription is not fully secure due to breakage."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Impressed hieroglyphic signs forming part of the royal name/throne-name; readable elements appear to include the sequence consistent with “Amenhotep” but the full transcription is not fully secure due to breakage.

Connections

Found at Malqata
Deities PtahThoth
Royals Amenhotep III
Materials Mud
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.