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.
A dark, irregular lump of baked/clayey material showing a recessed relief impression, consistent with a document sealing with a stamp impression.
The image shows a small, irregular fragment of dark gray/black material (mud/clay). One face bears incised/recessed linear and geometric elements arranged in shallow relief, resembling the negative of a seal impression rather than an integral carved scene. No clearly readable hieroglyphs, cartouches, deity figures, or legible inscriptions are visible at this resolution; the markings are present but too unclear to identify specific signs. The object appears intact enough to show the impression surface but is not complete. There is no visible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text. The overall appearance supports the catalogue’s description of a “Document Sealing,” though the exact seal content cannot be securely determined from the photo alone.
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.