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Cylinder Seal with Cartouche of Amenemhat III and Hieroglyphs
(Ancient Egypt and Nubia )
This cylinder seal is inscribed with the birth name of king Amenemhat III (Nimaatre) enclosed within a cartouche, along with an inscription to the god Henti-Het. This god came from a town in the Delta, and during the Middle Kingdom, Henti-Het had the body of the crocodile and the head of a falcon. Seals inscribed with the name Amenemhat III continued to be made after this king's reign through the Second Intermediate Period (ca. 1650-1550 BCE).
Inscription
Provenance
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Egypt (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
42.398