Sealing from net
Description
Sealing, from net. Roman Period, A.D. 1st century ?. Mud, cord (?). L. 5.3 cm (2 1/16 in.). From: Priests' houses, near, Roman burial XXI, Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1923–24. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1925.
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, torn and irregular mud sealing fragment with a knotted cord attached at the top, likely made to secure a bundle or container.
The object is photographed against a plain light background. It appears as a roughly teardrop/ovoid clump of dark brown to grey mud or clay, with surface roughness and cracking from drying. At the narrow upper end, a short length of cord is attached; the cord looks frayed and twisted, suggesting it once passed through or was tied around the sealing before detachment or breakage. The mud surface bears shallow depressions and an incised/embossed circular form on the front/side, but no clearly readable hieroglyphs, cartouches, or Greek text are visible in the photo. No deities or royal names can be confidently identified from the markings shown.
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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.
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