Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Stela of Dedu
Description
Limestone (indurated), paint
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A painted limestone relief depicting two standing figures with hieroglyphic inscriptions above.
The artifact is a painted limestone relief featuring two figures, likely from an elite or religious scene. The male figure is depicted with reddish-brown skin, wearing a kilt and a broad collar, while the female figure wears a long green dress and a black wig. Above the figures are rows of hieroglyphs painted in blue and black. The composition and the style reflect the aesthetics typical of Egyptian tomb art.
funerary
Old Kingdom
good
Materials
limestonepaint
Signs
ankh
djed
Visible text
"Htp dj nsw"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247943 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.333 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544346 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.