Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Stela of the royal scribe Amunnakht praising the divine barque of Amun-Re, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands
Description
Limestone, pigment
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.
An Egyptian stele depicting figures and hieroglyphs.
This artifact is a rounded-top stele made from limestone, featuring two registers. The upper register shows a central seated figure, possibly a deity or royal person, with other figures making offerings. The lower register contains four figures, likely priests or officials, walking in procession with accompanying hieroglyphic text. The artwork is executed in a traditional Egyptian style with clear outlines and characteristic poses. The inscriptions provide additional context, possibly religious or funerary in nature.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Ra
Royals
Seti I
Materials
limestone
Signs
ankh ×3
djed ×2
was
Visible text
"Djed en Ra, neb maat"
Cross-references (4)
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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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