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Window grill from a palace of Ramesses III

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Description

Window grill, palace of Ramesses III. New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 20, reign of Ramesses III, ca. 1184–1153 B.C. Sandstone, paint. H. 103.5 × W. 102.9 × D. 14.6 cm (40 3/4 × 40 1/2 × 5 3/4 in.). From: Palace of Ramesses III, Throne room, Medinet Habu, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: Davis/Burton excavations, 1912–13. Credit: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914.

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.

Stone window-grille element carved in low relief, with winged/feathered motifs and two facing vertical emblems flanking a central stand-like form.

The object is a rectangular sandstone panel with an openwork window-grill design. In the upper register, two large bird-like/feathered figures angle inward from left and right, their wings spread and feathers rendered in layered carved lines. At the center of the upper register are two small vertical, shrine-like forms topped with ornament, flanked by circular/oval details; beneath them rises a central pillar or stand with side projections. The lower register comprises a horizontal bar pierced by three openings, with two facing vertical panels at left and right containing human-figure or god-figure-like silhouettes within recessed cartouche-like borders. A few shallow traces of dark or discolored surface are visible, but no clear modern inscriptions are legible. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.

royal New Kingdom, Ramesside period (catalogued as Ramesses III; exact inscriptional confirmation not legible here). good
Deities unknown (human/standing deity-like figures in vertical panels; attributes not clear enough to identify)
Royals Ramesses III (catalogue attribution; no readable cartouche present in the image)
Materials sandstonepaint (possible traces; not clearly preserved)
Signs paired cartouche/shrine-like vertical emblems with internal hieroglyphic-like compartments (not sufficiently legible) ×2 horizontal bar/openwork slots (decorative window grill apertures) ×3

Connections

Found at Medinet Habu
Royals Ramesses III
Materials Sandstone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116413626 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 14.6.232 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544719 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.