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

Cylinder Seal of King Seankhibre Amenemhat VI

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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"

Connections

Materials Faience
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  • 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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