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 seal with an impression featuring hieroglyphic script.
The artifact is a clay seal fragment with visible hieroglyphic impressions. The seal is in a fragmentary condition, with parts of the impression missing. The style is consistent with administrative or identification purposes in ancient Egyptian society. Notable features include the raised impression which appears to be part of a cartouche or official insignia.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
clay
Signs
unknown ×3
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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.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.