Source of record: Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →
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
Inscription #2
· Egyptian Hieroglyphs
· Egyptian
· on below jackals
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