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, 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.

unclear Middle Kingdom (per catalogue); image itself not sufficient for firm independent dating. fragmentary
Materials mud (clay)

Connections

Found at Lisht
Materials Mud
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  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
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