Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Cylinder seal with the Horus name of Amenemhat VII
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 artifact featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions with a decorative motif.
The image shows a rectangular faience artifact inscribed with hieroglyphs. It is divided into upper and lower sections, with the upper section depicting a bird and some smaller hieroglyphic symbols. The lower section presents additional signs. The piece displays typical artistic conventions of ancient Egyptian writing with clear line work in a blue on off-white faience surface.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Seated god or king
Reed
Folded cloth
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389559 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.1640 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544373 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.