Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Cylinder Seal with the Name of Pepy I
Description
Caption: Cylinder Seal with the Name of Pepy I, ca. 2338–2298 B.C.E.. Steatite, 2 13/16 x Diam. 3/4 in. (7.1 x 1.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 44.123.32. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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 stone artifact with vertical hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a small cylindrical object made from a dark stone material, likely basalt or a similar black stone. It features vertically arranged hieroglyphs, possibly functioning as a cylinder seal. The surface displays signs of wear but the inscriptions are relatively clear.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
good
Materials
basalt
Signs
reed ×2
water ripple
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 44.123.32 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3465 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- 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.