seals

Cylinder Seal, greenish-black jasper, bored longitudinally, long sides inscribed with depiction of standing figure wearing short horizontally-striped kilt and White Crown with coil of Red Crown, facing left, giving life (ankh-hieroglyph) over cartouche containing residual hieroglyphs to standing man wearing long robe with horizontal bands of decoration, with standing man behind the long-robed man, holding open lotus flower surmounted by long-necked bird with head turned back (to left). Depiction flanked by vertical panels with, at left end of scene, four ibex, and, right end, intertwined cord motif. The hieroglyphs in the cartouche have been read Khamudy, name of last Hyksos on Turin Canon kinglist, but they are identifiable as 'space-filler hieroglyphs' current in north Levantine small-scale carving in 18th-17th centuries BC. The cylinder-seal belongs to the group of green jasper seal-amulets of that date from a production centre in the area of Byblos, as identified by Dominique Collon.

- Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Scarabs and Cylinders with Names, pl. XIX. 14. N

late Middle Kingdom - () Second Intermediate Period

LDUCE-UC11616

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology