Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Sealing
Description
Clay (unfired)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A fragmented stone artifact with visible hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The image shows a fragmentary stone artifact with clear signs of wear, indicating its age. The surface is rough, with part of a boat motif and hieroglyphs visible. The composition suggests it may have been part of a larger object, possibly used in a religious or funerary context. The engraving style is consistent with ancient Egyptian inscriptions, with identifiable shapes such as a boat.
funerary
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Signs
Boat symbol
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.