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Sealing

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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.

The same text in other collections

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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, broken piece of sealing clay bearing molded or impressed hieroglyphic signs arranged in horizontal bands.

The object appears as a fragment of mud/sealing material, roughly rectangular with rounded edges from breakage. The surface is densely covered with impressed or molded hieroglyphic signs in vertical strokes and grouped motifs, with a banded composition across the face. The central area includes a rounded/oval sign and adjacent vertical strokes that resemble standard hieroglyphic writing patterns. No clear cartouche borders, royal titulary layout, or deity determinatives can be confirmed from the available resolution. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic script is visible. The background is plain; no mounting or associated inscriptions are visible beyond the hieroglyphic impressions on the fragment.

hieroglyphic only Middle Kingdom (consistent with catalogue; exact reign unclear) fragmentary
Materials mud (clay)
Signs Impressed/molded hieroglyphic signs (exact transliteration unclear from image) ×6
Visible text "Multiple impressed hieroglyphic signs in a compact layout; individual signs not confidently legible at this resolution."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Multiple impressed hieroglyphic signs in a compact layout; individual signs not confidently legible at this resolution.

Connections

Found at Lisht
Materials Mud

Cross-references (1)

  • PNM-Object pnm:83899651 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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.