Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Cylinder seal with falcon headed figure
Description
Steatite (glazed)
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 artifact featuring carved hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a cylindrical object, possibly made from bone or ivory, intricately carved with hieroglyphs. It features symmetrical patterns including repeated loops and circular motifs, suggesting a decorative or a functional use within a ritual context.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
ivory
Signs
looped rope ×4
eye ×2
Visible text
"Ankh wedja seneb"
Connections
Materials
Ivory
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247595 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 74.51.4304 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544663 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.