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, irregular gray mud sealing fragment bearing incised hieroglyphic figures or motifs on one face.
The object appears as a broken, trapezoid/irregular chunk of compact gray material consistent with mud. One face preserves a molded/incised design: a cluster of vertical and curved strokes forming what looks like hieroglyphic signs arranged in a stacked format. No clear cartouche or royal name is legible from the provided image resolution. There is no visible trace of paint, gilding, or other materials beyond the particulate gray surface. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The surviving marks are best described generally as hieroglyphic inscription/signs rather than specific deities or royal titulary.
Inscriptions (1)
Visible text (machine reading)
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.