Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Stand for an Offering Basin with the Name of King Khafre Old KingdomHurbeit (Pharbaethos)
Description
Offering stand, king Khafre. Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khafre, ca. 2520–2494 B.C. Gneiss. H. 85 cm (33 7/16 in.). Probably from: Hurbeit (Pharbaethos), Eastern Delta. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1907.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Hieroglyphic text and an oval/cartouche-like royal-name enclosure are present on the front; the name is not reliably readable in the provided image.
Connections
Royals
Khafre
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116252277 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 07.228.24 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 543910 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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