Sealing
Description
Late Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, late - 13 up to 1700, ca. 1850–1700 B.C. Mud. l. 4.1 cm (1 5/8 in). From: cemetery south of pyramid below House A1:2, Pit 884, Lisht North, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1920–21. Credit: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922.
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, roughly oval-bodied Egyptian clay sealing fragment with an incised/pressed oval mark on one face.
The object is a hand-sized fragment of mud/clay, broken along most edges and tapering toward the top. The front face shows a shallow, irregularly formed oval/roundel impression with faint internal relief lines, suggesting a pressed seal matrix. No clearly legible hieroglyphs are visible; however, there are small traces of red pigment/paint spots on the side/border areas. The reverse side is plain and worn, without distinct decoration. No cartouches, royal names, or identifiable deity iconography can be confirmed from the visible mark at this resolution.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280689 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.120 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546814 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.