Door drum section, tomb of Mereri
Description
Old Kingdom–First Intermediate Period, Dynasty 8–9, ca. 2100–2030 B.C. Limestone. H. 8.7 × W. 35 × D. 7.6 cm (3 7/16 × 13 3/4 × 3 in.). From: Tomb of Mereri, Dendera, Northern Upper Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: Egypt Exploration Fund excavations, 1898. Credit: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898.
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 rectangular limestone door-drum/cylinder-like section carved in relief with a framed set of hieroglyphs, showing a vertical column of signs within a border.
The image shows a horizontally oriented stone fragment with flat outer faces and a recessed central rectangular panel framed by a border. Inside the panel, there is a cluster of carved hieroglyphic signs arranged in a block; parts of the signs are worn but still legible as conventional hieroglyph forms (e.g., a seated/standing figure-like sign and neighboring vertical elements). No clearly identifiable royal cartouche, deity figure, or scene is visible beyond the hieroglyphic inscription. The outer surfaces are weathered and chipped, consistent with an architectural funerary element (as catalogued). No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.
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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.