Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · seal

Half-Cylinder Stamp Seal

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Description

Pottery

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 ceramic stamp seal fragment/half-cylinder showing a painted/inked incised motif within a bordered square.

The object appears as a greenish-glazed ceramic piece with a rounded rectangular (half-cylinder) body. The face is decorated with a thick dark border forming a square-like frame. Inside the frame are two symmetrical, stylized motifs resembling curled/spiral elements or protective-loop forms, connected by angular strokes. No clear figural deity, cartouche, or legible hieroglyphs are visible; the decoration looks like an abstract or iconographic stamp design rather than a readable inscription. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is present. Overall surface shows wear and flaking of the glaze/paint, with the colored (green/teal and dark) design remaining partially intact.

decorative New Kingdom (per catalogue ground truth); specific reign unknown good
Materials ceramic/potteryglaze or pigment (green/teal and dark pigment/ink)
Signs Abstract spiral/curl motifs (non-legible) ×2

Connections

Royals Amenhotep I

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116244518 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 05.3.349 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 554714 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.