Lion-shaped stamp seal with name of Amenemhat II
Description
Faience
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 lion-shaped stamp seal fragment shows the animal’s body in low relief with a drilled/rounded suspension or fixing hole near the center.
The object is shown in left-facing profile and appears to be a lion-shaped seal/badge with a simplified sculpted mane across the upper portion and a rounded head form at the left. A circular hole is visible on the upper surface near the middle, suggesting a suspension point or attachment. The surface is heavily worn/abraded, with irregular discoloration and loss of fine detail, making any incised text or fine hieroglyphic design impossible to read in the available image. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or separate ornamental registers are visible, and there is no visible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116282282 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.558 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 557032 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.