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, roughly triangular/irregular gray mud sealing fragment impressed with two curved, raised bands and a central marking resembling a cartouche-like oval or ring.
The object appears to be a gray, porous fragment consistent with mud. One main face bears molded/impressed decorative elements: on the left, a C-/U-shaped curved band; on the right, a similar larger curved band. Between them is a central, rounded form that could be part of a sign or seal motif, but no clearly legible hieroglyphs are fully preserved. The surface shows wear and pitting, and edges are broken, suggesting it is only a portion of a larger sealing. No figures of deities or humans are visible, and there is no clearly readable text in hieroglyphs, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic on the image provided.
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.