Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · seal
Cylinder seal Early Dynastic Period
Description
Early Dynastic Period, Dynasty 1, ca. 2960–2649 B.C. Stone. H. 1.8 × Diam. 1.6 cm (11/16 × 5/8 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
No readable inscription excerpt; only non-specific hieroglyph-like/abstract signs visible.
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Materials
Stone
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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.
- 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.