Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian) · stela

stelae

Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian), acc. E.63.1901. See the source record for rights. Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: E.63.1901
Find spot: Abydos Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Roman
Date range: 30 CE – 300 CE
Height: 44.0 cm
Width: 32.0 cm
Repository: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian), stelae (E.63.1901). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/1112

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AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Photograph of a rectangular limestone stela with low-relief figures and registers; the scene shows two standing/supported figures flanking a central vertical element, with additional incised text below.

The object appears to be a weathered limestone stela in vertical format. In low relief, two human figures (largely profile/turning toward the center) occupy the upper portion, each holding or gesturing toward elements of the scene. Behind/around the figures are rectangular background blocks that resemble architectural or paneling motifs. Beneath the main relief scene is a band of incised signs in horizontal lines; however, the characters are worn and partly damaged, making exact reading difficult. No clearly legible cartouches or royal names are visible in this image at the current resolution. Overall condition is fragmentary/worn at the edges, with surface erosion that obscures fine details.

religious Roman period (as catalogued; image details not sufficient to confirm with certainty) fragmentary

Materials limestone (stone, beige-gray)

Signs incised hieroglyph-like signs (worn/partly illegible) ×20

Visible text "Bottom register contains multiple incised lines of hieroglyph-like text; excerpt not reliably readable due to wear/blur."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Bottom register contains multiple incised lines of hieroglyph-like text; excerpt not reliably readable due to wear/blur.

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Found at Abydos

Materials Limestone

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.