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Cylinder bead inscribed with the name Amenhotep

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Steatite, glazed

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.

Rectangular/oval cylinder bead fragment with painted or inlaid light-green and dark pigment forming a stylized figure and surrounding hieroglyphic signs.

The object is shown upright against a white background. It has a narrow, cylindrical body with a worn, sandy-beige surface and areas of greenish/teal coloration. Near the upper portion there appears to be a human-like or god-like standing figure in dark outline with green fill, and below it a vertical column of smaller dark hieroglyphic-like signs. A few signs are partially obscured by wear and pigment loss, but multiple stacked glyphs are visible in the middle-to-lower area. No cartouche border is clearly visible. The inscription appears to be in vertical alignment and is consistent with an inscribed bead, though the full wording is not legible at this resolution.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom (per catalogue); exact reign uncertain from image alone. fragmentary
Deities unknown (stylized standing figure; not clearly identifiable)
Materials stone/ceramic body (steatite-like)green glazed or pigment layer (glazed appearance)
Signs hieroglyphic signs in vertical column (individuals not confidently readable) ×6

Connections

Royals Amenhotep I

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116244474 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 10.130.1641 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 554730 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.