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. 2 cm (13/16 in.); w. 2.2 cm (7/8 in.); th. 0.8 cm (5/16 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 small, irregular mud document seal impression with a band of incised hieroglyphs across its face.
The object appears as a compact, rounded lump of gray-brown mud with an impressed/inscribed rectangular field on one side. Within the field there is a continuous sequence of incised vertical signs and additional strokes, suggesting a royal name or title written in hieroglyphs. The incised lines are worn but clearly hieroglyphic in character, running roughly left-to-right in a stacked/columnar arrangement. No figures of deities are visible, only hieroglyphic signs. The reverse/edges show rough, broken mud surfaces. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is apparent in the image.
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.