Ancient Seals Collection

A series of ancient sealing fragments from the Middle Kingdom. The artifacts exhibit textured surfaces with historical inscriptions and patterns.

Fragmentary Attic Red-Figure Pyxis; Athens, Greece; about 380 B.C; Terracotta; 4.5 × 4.5 cm (1 3,4 × 1 3,4 in.)

Sealing ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 560395

Sealing ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 560409

Sealing ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 560396

Sealing ca. 2030-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 546552

Sealing fragment ca. 2030-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing fragment 565833

Sealing ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing. ca. 1981-1640 B.C.. Mud. Middle Kingdom. From Egypt, Memphite Region, Lisht North, Cemetery, MMA excavations, 1920-22. Dynasty 12-13

Fragmentary Attic Red-Figure Pyxis; Athens, Greece; about 380 B.C; Terracotta; 4.5 × 4.5 cm (1 3,4 × 1 3,4 in.)

Sealing ca. 2030-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 565354

Female Head. Unknown

Sealing ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 560331

Fragment of a Feathered Wing. Unknown

Document Sealing ca. 1390-1353 B.C. New Kingdom. Document Sealing. ca. 1390-1353 B.C.. Mud. New Kingdom. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Malqata, Southern rubbish mounds, MMA excavations, 1910-12. Dynasty 18

Female Head. Unknown

Unattributed Trebizond Coin. Unknown

Female Head. Unknown

Unattributed Trebizond Coin. Unknown

Sealing ca. 7th century A.D. Sasanian. Sealing 323444

Figurine Fragment. Unknown

Sealing ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 560490

Unattributed Trebizond Coin. Unknown

Mouth amulet 305-30 B.C. Ptolemaic Period. Mouth amulet. 305-30 B.C.. Gold foil. Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt

Figurine Fragment: Leg and Drapery. Unknown

Sealing ca. 2030-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 565879

Sealing ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 560454

Sealing ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 558566

Sealing ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 560524

Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions ca. 1390-1353 B.C. New Kingdom. Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions. ca. 1390-1353 B.C.. Mud. New Kingdom. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Malqata, MMA excavations, 1910-12; Presumably from Southern rubbish mounds. Dynasty 18

Female Head. Unknown

Left Arm of a Statuette; Roman Empire; 1st - 2nd century; Bronze; 24.5 cm (9 5,8 in.)

Attic Red-Figure Astragalos Fragment. Attributed to Syriskos (Greek (Attic), active 480 - 460 B.C.)

Unattributed Trebizond Coin. Unknown

Female Head. Unknown

Female Head. Unknown

Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre ca. 1981-1975 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre. ca. 1981-1975 B.C.. Limestone, paint. Middle Kingdom. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Southern Asasif, Tomb of Meketre (TT 280, MMA 1101), MMA excavations, 1920. Dynasty 12

Attic Red-Figure Stamnos Fragment. Kleophrades Painter (Greek (Attic), active 505 - 475 B.C.)

Fragment of an Attic Red-Figure Cup. Unknown

Attic Black-Figure Amphora Fragment. Unknown

Document Sealing ca. 1390-1353 B.C. New Kingdom. Document Sealing. ca. 1390-1353 B.C.. Mud. New Kingdom. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Malqata, West Villas, West Villa B, MMA excavations, 1910-12. Dynasty 18

Sealing fragment ca. 2030-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing fragment 565737

Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre ca. 1981-1975 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre. ca. 1981-1975 B.C.. Limestone, paint. Middle Kingdom. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Southern Asasif, Tomb of Meketre (TT 280, MMA 1101), MMA excavations, 1920. Dynasty 12

Sealing ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 560383

Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III ca. 1390-1353 B.C. New Kingdom. Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III. ca. 1390-1353 B.C.. Mud. New Kingdom. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Malqata, King's Palace, East slope, MMA excavations, 1910-12. Dynasty 18

Instrument. Unknown

Sealing ca. 7th century A.D. Sasanian. Sealing 323430

Ring; second half of 6th century B.C; Silver; 2.1 cm, 0.0021 kg (13,16 in., 0.0046 lb.)

Fragmentary Stamnoid Krater. Unknown

Coin 5th-14th century. Coin. 5th-14th century. Copper. Excavated in Iran, Nishapur. Coins

Bowl ca. 3rd-7th century A.D. Sasanian. Bowl 322803

Attic Vase Fragment. Unknown

Sealing ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 560414

Lazio Latina Sezze Antiquarium Comunale00. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Ingot with Hittite hieroglyphs ca. 14th-13th century B.C. Hittite Hittite scribes wrote both in cuneiform script (borrowed from Mesopotamia) and in hieroglyphs, a local development that continued after the end of the Hittite empire into the Neo-Hittite kingdoms. Unfortunately, the hieroglyphs on this silver ingot are not legible, so the writing cannot help us determine the ingot's function.It has been suggested that the ingot belonged to a silversmith, who might have used it to make or repair jewelry, sculpture, or drinking vessels or other ceremonial containers, such as the stag-headed cup (MMA 1989.281.10). On the other hand, we know that in the earlier Assyrian Trading Colony period specific weights of Anatolian silver were traded for the goods imported from Assyria. Perhaps this ingot, or pieces from it, were weighed and used as currency in Hittite times, since coins as we know them were only invented in the mid-seventh century B.C.. Ingot with Hittite hieroglyphs 327405

Sealing fragment ca. 2030-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing fragment 565835

Female Head. Unknown

Protome (Fragment). Unknown

Drohiczyn seal. unknown, manager

Lamella Fragment. Unknown

Rim sherd ca. mid-3rd millennium B.C.. Rim sherd 326111

Sealing ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 560516

Attic Black-Figure Mastoid Cup Fragment. Unknown

Sealing ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 560400

Female Head. Unknown

Sealing ca. 7th century A.D. Sasanian. Sealing 323341

Bead. Unknown

Clothing decoration or armor ca. 9th century B.C. Iran. Clothing decoration or armor 325192

Coin 786-808. Coin. 786-808. Copper. Excavated in Iran, Nishapur. Coins

Sealing ca. 2030-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 565768

Fragment lead from the wreck of the East Indieschief Hollandia. Parts or artifacts; eroded fragments: Materials; Lead.

Coin 8th century. Coin. 8th century. Copper. Excavated in Iran, Nishapur. Coins

Uninscribed Cone ca. 2649-2100 B.C. Old Kingdom . Uninscribed Cone. ca. 2649-2100 B.C.. Pottery. Old Kingdom . From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Abydos, Osiris Temple, Temenos, M 214, Egypt Exploration Fund excavations, 1903

Female Head. Unknown

Fragment of a Small Chalice. Unknown

Fragmentary Fibula. Unknown

Drohiczyn seal. unknown, manager

sestertius. Anonimowy, monetary officer, Republika Rzymska, issuer

Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre ca. 1981-1975 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre 562133

Female Head. Unknown

Drohiczyn seal. unknown, manager

Attic Red-Figure Column Krater Fragment. Unknown

Sealing ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Sealing 560377

Glass roundel with head of Herakles ca. 2nd century B.C. Greek () Translucent deep blue-green; opaque yellow and white, and uncertain color.Flat disk, with uneven rounded edge and uneven underside.At center, large head in relief, facing right, with dark hair and beard, wearing a yellow (imitating gold) wreath of ivy or vine leaves.Intact; many pitted surface bubbles on head, especially in the hair and beard, iridescence, and thick, creamy weathering.. Glass roundel with head of Herakles 250144

Stud Button. Unknown

Canosan Oinochoe Fragment. Unknown

Canosan Oinochoe Fragment. Unknown

Fragmentary Canosan Oinochoe (56). Unknown

Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora Fragment. Unknown

Hinge. Unknown

Fragment of a Sculpture: Wrist. Unknown

Drohiczyn seal. unknown, manager

Head. Unknown

Drohiczyn seal. unknown, manager

Coin 8th-9th century. Coin. 8th-9th century. Copper. Excavated in Iran, Nishapur. Coins

Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre ca. 1981-1975 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre 562156

Bell 100 BC-200 AD Italian (Ancient Roman). Bell 502516

Coin 204 AH/819 CE View more. Coin. 204 AH/819 CE. Copper. Excavated in Iran, Nishapur. Coins

Stamp seal (with horse-head handle) with geometric design ca. 8th-7th century B.C. () Iranian. Stamp seal (with horse-head handle) with geometric design 326638

Wall casing 664-610 B.C. Late Period, Saite see 23.3.468. Wall casing. 664-610 B.C.. Limestone, mortar traces. Late Period, Saite. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb of Nespekashuty (TT 312, MMA 509), Undetermined, MMA excavations, 1922-23. Dynasty 26

Mask 13th-14th century Mississippian. Mask 312908

Sealing ca. 7th century A.D. Sasanian. Sealing 323280

Ornaments, 14 Greek, Laconian. Ornaments, 14 251700 Greek, Laconian, Ornaments, 14, Lead, Height: 1 3/16 in. (3.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of A. J. B. Wace, 1924 (24.195.134)

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