Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Cylinder Seal of King Sekhemre Sewadjtawy 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.
A cylindrical faience bead featuring hieroglyphic symbols.
The artifact is a small, cylindrical bead made of turquoise-blue faience, with hieroglyphic inscriptions carved into its surface. The design prominently features a bird symbol at the top, followed by vertical decorative bands and additional hieroglyphs. The craftsmanship suggests careful carving typical of Egyptian ornamental objects.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
bird
water ripple
unknown ×2
Visible text
"unclear"
Connections
Materials
Faience
About this record's data
- 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.