Cylinder seal with the Horus name of Amenemhat VII

Cylinder seal with the Horus name of Amenemhat VII

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This cylinder seal of glazed steatite bears the name Horteptawy within a serekh (a rectangle bordered at the bottom by a desisign imitating the niched wall of a palace). The Horus falcon above the serekh identifies this as a "Horus name"; this is one of the names of Amenemhat VII, who ruled during Dynasty 13.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.