Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Cylinder Seal of King Merneferre Aya
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.
Faience amulet displaying hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a faience amulet, recognizable by its light blue-green glaze, showcasing vertical columns of hieroglyphics. The inscription is clear and features well-preserved signs, possibly including a cartouche. The amulet is rectangular with rounded edges, typical of amulets from the Middle to New Kingdom periods. The red markings at the base appear to be a museum or catalog number.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
excellent
Materials
faience
Signs
ankh
djed
Connections
Materials
Faience
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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.