Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Cylinder seal with name of Amenemhat III
Description
Bright blue 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 cylindrical artifact with blue faience and hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a cylindrical object made from blue faience, showcasing a series of hieroglyphic inscriptions. The characters are stylized and intricately detailed, possibly representing a name or short phrase. The blue color of the faience is well-preserved, although some wear is evident.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown ×6
Visible text
"unknown"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414698 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.52 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546483 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.