Sealing
Description
Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12–13, ca. 1981–1640 B.C. Mud. From: Cemetery, Lisht North, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1920–22. Subject: Hieroglyphs. 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.
A small, broken lump of molded sealing material with raised/pressed linear impressions resembling the surfaces of a sign or seal impression.
The image shows a gray, rough-textured fragment with a damaged front face. Across the central portion are several raised ridges and recessed lines that look like impressions from a carved seal or stamp rather than painted ornament. The piece appears weathered with flaked surfaces and breaks along the left and lower edges; the right side is more intact but still fractured. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, royal titulary, deities, or modern inscriptions can be confidently read from the available resolution. There is no visible metal or ceramic glaze—only a consistent earthen/semicompacted look consistent with a mud sealing.
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.
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