Document Sealing
Description
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.
Gray, worn mud document-sealing fragment bearing an incised rectangular device and surrounding marks, photographed against a plain background.
The image shows a small, irregularly shaped, gray-black fragment of dried mud (catalogued as a sealing). The object has a rounded/flattened base with one larger face containing a recessed, roughly rectangular field bordered by darker, textured areas. Within the central field are incised linear elements arranged like vertical strokes and horizontal lines, but the complete sign group is not fully preserved and individual hieroglyphs cannot be confidently read. No clear cartouche edges, royal titulary, or determinative forms are identifiable at this resolution. There is no visible metal, pigment, or added material. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The condition is fragmentary, with edges broken and surface erosion prominent.
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.