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 22.1.1674 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.
The image shows a small, dark grey, irregular lump with an impressed surface—consistent with an ancient Egyptian mud sealing or seal fragment bearing degraded markings.
A single object is photographed against a plain background. It appears as a broken, irregular mass of dark grey material with lighter grey areas from erosion or different density within the clay. The surface contains shallow, worn impressions that could be seal/inscription impressions, but no individual hieroglyphs or legible signs can be reliably distinguished at this resolution. No clear cartouche, deity figure, or royal titulary is discernible. The piece is fragmentary, with edges broken and one pointed projection suggesting it was once part of a larger sealing mass. No visible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is present.
Cross-references (1)
- PNM-Object pnm:83899642 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.