Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Stela of Nakht Middle Kingdom
Description
Stela, Nakht. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, early, ca. 1950–1900 B.C. Limestone, paint. H. 34.6 × W. 25 × D. 7.6 cm, 9.9 kg (13 5/8 × 9 13/16 × 3 in., 21.8 lb.). Probably from: Upper Egypt, Thebes. Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
The same text in other collections
Linked by shared inventory number
(MET-Object 544347).
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- MMA 11.155.1 PNM text
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Non-transcribed; hieroglyphs are present but individual signs and any name (e.g., Nakht) are not clearly legible at this resolution.
Cross-references (5)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413527 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 11.155.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544347 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- PNM-Object pnm:83889594 tier-2 (inventory-match)
About this record's data
- 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.