Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Cylinder Seal of King Amenemhat Sebekhotep
Description
Glazed steatite
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
The image depicts a cylindrical seal with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is an ancient Egyptian cylindrical seal made of a light-colored stone. It features a vertical column of hieroglyphs within an oval cartouche, suggesting it may include a royal or divine name. The style is typical of inscribed cylindrical seals used for official and ceremonial purposes in ancient Egypt.
royal
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Signs
cartouche
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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.
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