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. 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, irregular lump of hardened mud/clay shown in isolation, photographed against a white background.
The image depicts a single fragmentary clod of mud/clay with an uneven, jagged surface. No clear impressed seal design, stand-alone hieroglyphs, cartouche, or legible inscriptions are visible at this resolution; the texture appears more like broken hardened earth than a readable carved/pressed surface. There are no distinct figures or iconographic motifs identifiable. The photograph is purely documentary, with no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text apparent.
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.