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. Subject: Hieroglyphs. 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.
Small, irregularly shaped clay seal impression/fragment with impressed markings and stacked motifs along one face.
The image shows a narrow, vertical fragment of fired/air-dried mud/clay with a rough, granular surface. One face is dominated by impressed decoration resembling sign rows arranged in registers. The markings include repeated oval/loop-like forms and short linear strokes, suggesting a seal layout rather than a relief scene. No clearly legible royal cartouche or deity determinatives can be confirmed from the available resolution. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The object appears fragmentary with edges broken, consistent with a sealing fragment rather than a complete amulet or sculpted figure.
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.