Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · seal

Sealing

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Description

Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12–13, ca. 1981–1640 B.C. Mud. From: Cemetery, Lisht North, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1920–22. 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, rough mud sealing fragment with an impressed motif/inscription, shown from a close-up view.

The image shows a gray, irregular fragment consistent with a mud sealing. One face bears an impressed design: a central, outlined figure-like form surrounded by additional impressed marks or symbols. The surface is worn and the edges are broken, making individual hieroglyphs difficult to read with confidence. No clearly legible royal titulary, cartouche, or deity determinatives can be confirmed from the visible impressions. No modern labels or non-Egyptian scripts (Greek/Coptic/Arabic) are visible.

decorative Middle Kingdom (per catalogue; inscriptions too unclear to refine further) fragmentary
Materials mud
Signs Unclear impressed motif/signs (possibly hieroglyphic or a standardized stamp motif) ×4

Connections

Found at Lisht
Materials Mud
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  • 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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