WALTERS-EG
Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · statue
Horus Stele (Cippus)
Description
<p>This cippus is carved in low relief. It depicts, on a panel, Horus the child holding a gazelle, a lion, snakes, and a scorpion. There are inscriptions on the sides and back. There is a head of Bes at the top with a hole for suspension through the head.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.335' rel='external'>Horus Stele (Cippus)</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>
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 dark, rounded-top stela (cippus-like monument) carved in relief with dense Egyptian hieroglyphs across the face.
The object is a small, freestanding stone stela with a semicircular/rounded top and a slightly tapering, block-like body. Its surface is filled with carved hieroglyphic signs in multiple horizontal registers, with occasional larger sign groups and a prominent central area. No clear full cartouche or name is legible at this resolution, though the layout and sign forms are consistent with a typical Egyptian stela containing protective or royal/religious text. The image shows a dark brown/black stone body; the catalogued material is brown stone, which matches the visible color tone. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The photograph does not show any obvious modern markings. Deity identification is not certain from the available detail; while the catalog claims a Horus-related stela, no unmistakable Horus falcon or clear determinative is identifiable here.
religious
unknown
good
Materials
brown stone
Signs
unidentified hieroglyphic signs (dense relief registers) ×200
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
English description
[On the back, beginning of a protective spell] Hail to you, god, son of a god; hail to you, heir, son of an heir; hail to you, bull, son of a bull; born of a divine mother (?), hail to you, Horus, who came forth from Osiris, born of Isis, the divine mother. I recite by your charm, I speak by your magic power.
Cross-references (2)
- Walters-AccNum 22.335 tier-2
- Walters-id 1410 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Walters Art Museum (Egyptian).
- 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.