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

Stamp Seal Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose I

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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 oval stamp seal made of green-glazed material, with an incised hieroglyphic design on the surface.

The image shows an oval, biconvex stamp seal with a mottled green glaze on a darker core, bordered by a raised rim. The seal’s face contains a linear, incised register of hieroglyph-like strokes and blocks rendered in dark lines with green infill/overglaze residue. Specific sign forms are not clear enough to identify individual hieroglyphs with confidence at this resolution. No visible cartouche enclosure is clearly discernible, and no other scripts (Greek/Coptic/Arabic) are visible. No deities are identifiable from the available image. The overall appearance is consistent with a faience glaze stamp seal from the New Kingdom.

decorative New Kingdom (exact reign/signs unclear from image) good
Materials faience (green glazed surface)
Signs unknown incised hieroglyphic sign group (inscription/royal name) ×5

Connections

Royals Thutmose I

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116276137 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.7.147 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 560997 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • 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.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.