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 dark, irregularly shaped small clay object with raised surface decoration or impressed marks, photographed against a white background.
The image shows a small, rough-textured fragment of an impressed/seal-like mud artifact. One face has dense incised/relief patterns resembling concentric or clustered lines, while the opposite side is flatter and broken. No clear cartouche, royal name, or readable hieroglyphs can be confidently identified from the photo. There are no visible traces of pigments or attached cords; the object appears to be a single compact piece with weathered/crumbly edges consistent with fired or dried mud fragments. The overall appearance fits a sealing impression/fragment rather than a complete relief or statuary piece, though the exact motif is unclear.
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.