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Stand for an Offering Basin with the Name of King Khafre

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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

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.

A tall, conical Egyptian stone stand bearing carved hieroglyphic text and iconography on its front surface.

The image shows a cylindrical-to-conical stone object that flares slightly at the top, tapering toward a rounded base. A vertical band of engraved/relief hieroglyphs runs down the central front face. Near the upper portion, an oval/cartouche-like enclosure and a seated/standing royal-figure tableau appear integrated with the text. Below, the composition continues in stacked registers with multiple hieroglyphs and a partial depiction of a figure in a shrine-like frame. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. The exact king’s name is not fully legible at this resolution, though the style is consistent with royal titulary in an Old Kingdom offering-stand context.

religious Old Kingdom (likely 4th Dynasty, c. Khafre) good
Deities unknown
Royals Khafre (unclear/readability)
Materials stone (catalogued as gneiss)
Signs Cartouche/oval enclosure element Vertical stacked hieroglyphic sequence ×20
Visible text "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."

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)
About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
  • 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.