Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian) · stela
stela cast
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A large stone slab featuring inscriptions in multiple languages.
The artifact is a large stone stele with inscriptions etched in three distinct scripts. The scripts feature neat, horizontal rows covering almost the entire surface of the slab. It is famed for its bilingual and trilingual inscriptions that were key in decrypting ancient Egyptian texts.
hieroglyphic only
Ptolemaic
good
Materials
granite
Signs
ankh ×5
djed ×2
was ×3
Visible text
"Ptolemy V"
Connections
Materials
Granite
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian).
- 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.