Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · seal
Sealing Middle KingdomLisht South
Description
Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12–13, ca. 2030–1640 B.C. Clay (unfired). 13/16 x 13/16 in. (2 x 2 cm). From: South of the tomb of Imhotep, north of the royal causeway, Lisht South, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1930–31. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1932.
The same text in other collections
Linked as the same object. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- MMA 32.1.166 PNM textLisht
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
No clearly legible text; faint stamped markings on lower right area are present but unreadable.
Connections
Found at
Lisht
Cross-references (1)
- PNM-Object pnm:83889525 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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.