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3g) of 24K gold
Condition: Minor chips to the rim and three interior scratches
1977Condition: Aside from the raised break to the base
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1978)
Exhibited: Ancient Forms For The Modern Eye
A Royal Egyptian Glazed Steatite Cylinder Seal for King Amenemhat II, 12th Dynasty, ca. 1914-1879/76 BCE Weights & Measures 3g) of 24K goldcarved from steatite, with traces of the original glaze remaining, particularly around the inscription that reads: "Nubkaure [Amenemhat II, 12th Dynasty] beloved of Sobek of Sumenu". Sumenu was the cult center of Sobek, the crocodile god of Upper Egypt, and a little south of Luxor. Cylinder seals of 12th Dynasty kings naming them and Sobek (sometimes Sobek of Sumenu, sometimes of Shedyt) are well attested. Background: Amenemhet II, was the grandson of
