Cylinder Seal with the Name of Pepi I
Description
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.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
Photograph of a dark stone cylinder seal with an incised register of hieroglyph-like signs around the exterior and a rounded top opening.
The object is a small cylinder seal: a thick, dark band forms the side with vertically oriented, tightly packed incised motifs. The center area shows a larger, roughly square/rectangular sign flanked by smaller marks; the top edge has a clean circular opening revealing the hollow interior. Wear/polishing and chips are visible on the surface, especially along the upper rim and edges. The photographic lighting and resolution make the individual hieroglyphs difficult to read precisely, but the carved layout is consistent with a royal-name inscription intended to be rolled onto soft material. No clearly legible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. No explicit deity figures are identifiable from the visible signs.
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- 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.
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