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Cylinder Seal with the Name of Pepi I Old Kingdom

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 10.130.1616. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 10.130.1616
Period: Old Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 6
Reign: reign of Pepi I
Date: ca. 2289–2255 B.C.
Date range: 2289 BCE – 2255 BCE
Materials: ['steatite']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Cylinder Seal with the Name of Pepi I (10.130.1616). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/61626

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Cylinder seal, Pepi I. Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, reign of Pepi I, ca. 2289–2255 B.C. Steatite. H. 1.1 × Diam. 1.7 cm (7/16 × 11/16 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910.

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Royals Pepi I

Materials Dark Stone

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