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 22.1.1670 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.
A small fragmentary clay/mud sealing impression with incised hieroglyphic signs visible in relief, arranged around a central motif.
The object appears to be a broken piece of a sealing (or sealing fragment) made of mud/clay, with multiple hieroglyphic signs incised/embossed in a dense block on the face. The signs include stacked horizontal strokes and curved/loop-like elements, though the fragment is too worn to read a complete, unambiguous word or to identify specific royal names or titles. No clear figurative deity iconography is visible; only hieroglyphic/ornamental signwork is present. The edges are eroded and portions of the seal image are missing, making any identification beyond 'hieroglyphic sealing fragment' uncertain. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.
Connections
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- PNM-Object pnm:83899671 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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- 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.