Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Upper Portion of a Stela New KingdomMeidum
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Limestone. H. 31 cm ( 12 3/16 in.), W. 28 cm (11 in.). From: Meidum, Fayum Entrance Area, Egypt. Excavation: Cardwell excavations, between 1885 and 1890. Credit: Gift of Mrs. G. W. Neville and Miss Cardwell, 1906.
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- MMA 06.1232.20 PNM text
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)
No complete readable royal name or continuous excerpt is visible in this image; only partial hieroglyphic columns can be made out without confident transcription.
Connections
Deities
Osiris
Cross-references (1)
- PNM-Object pnm:83915526 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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