Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Multiple Cylinder Seal
Description
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.
The artifact is a small, carved object featuring vertical bands of hieroglyphs.
The image depicts a small, cylindrical artifact with intricately carved vertical bands of hieroglyphs. The style suggests careful craftsmanship, possibly using stone as a medium. Notable features include several columns of hieroglyphic script, indicating that this might have been part of a larger object or served a specific function within a ceremonial context.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
unknown ×15
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389464 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 68.136.11 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546024 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.