Obelisk
Description
Ptolemaic Period, 332–30 BCE. Sandstone. H. 199.5 × W. 42 × D. 35 cm, 190.5 kg (78 9/16 × 16 9/16 × 13 3/4 in., 420 lb.). From: tomb of a sacred ram, chapel, Elephantine, Southern Upper Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: Cledat and Clermont-Ganneau excavations, March 1907. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1911.
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, narrow, stone obelisk standing upright on a roughly squared base, photographed against a neutral background.
The image shows a vertical, tapering obelisk-like monument made of brownish stone (surface shows patches of lighter and darker areas consistent with weathering). The top is pointed; the body is mostly plain from this viewing angle, with no clearly readable carved hieroglyphs, figures, or iconographic relief visible. The base is wider and roughly squared, with chipping and breakage along edges, suggesting age and/or damage. There is no distinct inscription, cartouche, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text legible on the visible surfaces in this image. No deities or royal names can be securely identified from the photograph due to the absence of clearly visible inscriptions or iconography.
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- 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.