Facsimile, Siptah (KV 47)

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.

Painted Egyptian hieroglyphic-themed illustration on paper showing a winged figure with a royal headdress and arms extended, accompanied by columns of hieroglyph-like signs.

The image is a colorful, flat painted scene on a light background resembling a modern facsimile. A human male figure wears a blue-and-gold nemes-like headdress with a tall, ribbon/crest element and a broad collar. He is shown in profile facing right, with one arm extended forward and the other bent. Large stylized blue-and-green wings extend behind him, arcing from left to right across the scene; the wings are segmented with red/orange striping along their edges. Around and above the figure are multiple groups of hieroglyph-like signs painted in black/red/green/blue, including rectangular cartouche-like frames and stacked sign blocks, but no clear cartouche naming Siptah can be securely read from the available image. At the bottom-right corner there is a small signature/inscription in Latin letters: "E. HAROLD JONES 1909" (or very close), indicating modern authorship rather than an ancient inscription. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. The overall look and presence of the modern signature strongly support that this is a twentieth-century facsimile rather than an original New Kingdom object.