Half-Cylinder Stamp Seal
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.
Connections
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.