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.
The image shows a small, irregular lump of fired/handled clay with surface impressions and clustered relief-like marks, photographed against a plain background.
The object appears to be a fragmentary, roughly quadrilateral piece of mud/clay. Its surface is uneven and pitted, with dark and lighter areas suggesting broken edges and possible partial firing or weathering. No clearly legible hieroglyphic signs, cartouches, or figures are discernible at this image resolution; the visible marks read more like degraded stamp/seal impressions or incidental texture than controlled inscriptions. No modern text, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic script, is visible. The image does not show identifiable royal names, deities, or clear iconography.
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.