Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian) · stela

stelae

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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.

An ancient Egyptian stela featuring Anubis figures and Greek inscription.

The artifact is a limestone stela depicting two reclining Anubis figures facing each other with a central symbolic object, likely a sun disc, in between. Above the Anubis figures are decorative wings, and below is a Greek inscription. The stela's style indicates a blend of Egyptian and Greek influences typical of the Ptolemaic period.

funerary Ptolemaic fragmentary
Deities Anubis
Materials limestone
Signs Anubis ×2 winged sun disc
Visible text "unknown"

Inscriptions (2)

Inscription #1 · Egyptian Hieroglyphs · Egyptian · on below winged sun disk

Transcription

ΚΑΙ ΣΥ
Inscription #2 · Egyptian Hieroglyphs · Egyptian · on below jackals

Connections

Found at Egypt-Nubia
Deities Anubis
Materials Limestone
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