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.
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- MMA 22.1.1661 PNM textLisht
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 conical/triangular mud sealing fragment with impressed incised lines and cartouche-like/inscription-like marks on the face.
The image shows a small, dark gray to gray mud fragment shaped roughly like a truncated cone or wedge, with one main face bearing molded or impressed markings. The marks include curved, hook-like elements and several short linear signs arranged in vertical and horizontal groupings, suggesting an inked/sealed impression rather than freehand carving. No clearly legible cartouche text, royal name, or deity determinatives can be confirmed from the low resolution; the sign forms are too fragmentary/ambiguous. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The object’s overall material and compact size are consistent with a sealing, though the exact Middle Kingdom date cannot be verified from the image alone.
Connections
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- PNM-Object pnm:83899635 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.