Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Cylinder Seal of King Seankhibre Amenemhat VI
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.
A faience amulet with hieroglyphs inside a cartouche.
The artifact is a cylindrical faience amulet depicting a cartouche with hieroglyphic inscriptions. The blue-green glaze is typical of faience, and the composition suggests it might have been used as a protective charm or as part of funerary equipment. The cartouche indicates it may reference a royal name.
royal
New Kingdom
excellent
Royals
Ramesses
Materials
faience
Signs
reed
ankh
basket
Visible text
"Ra-ms-sw"
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- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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