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 fragmentary clay artifact bearing a cartouche with hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a clay fragment featuring a circular cartouche containing several hieroglyphs, indicative of a pharaonic name or title. The clay's texture suggests it may have been part of a seal or a mural. The hieroglyphs are faint but distinguishable, implying the artifact might have sustained some damage over time.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
clay
Signs
cartouche
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.