Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Cylinder seal inscribed for Khaneferre Sobekhotep III
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 small rectangular artifact with engraved hieroglyphics, likely a cartouche.
The artifact is a small, rectangular piece with visible engravings in the form of hieroglyphics, likely representing a cartouche with the name of a pharaoh. The surface appears to be made of a blue-green glazed material, indicative of faience. The inscriptions are vertically oriented and the piece shows some signs of age but remains largely intact.
royal
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh
Djed
Visible text
"Transliteration not possible from image."
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389558 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.1638 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544379 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.