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

Document Sealings With the Throne Name of Thutmose IV

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Description

Sun-dried mud

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, dark sun-dried mud fragment with impressed relief-like markings, photographed against a plain background.

The image shows a compact, irregular lump of dark material resembling sun-dried mud or hardened clay. One face preserves a partial negative/impressed design: a prominent vertical element flanked by raised ridges, with additional crowded marks clustered near the bottom of the impression. The overall form suggests a seal impression or molded document sealing, but the specific hieroglyphs are not fully legible at this resolution. No clear cartouche outline or readable royal titulary is confidently identifiable. There is no visible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text.

funerary New Kingdom (exact reign: unclear from image) fragmentary
Materials sun-dried mud (hardened/clay-like)
Signs impressed hieroglyphic/ornamental marks (not confidently readable) ×8

Connections

Found at Malqata
Royals Thutmose IV
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  • 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.
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