Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Stela of Amenhotep Adoring the Rising and Setting Sun
Description
Sandstone, 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 limestone stela featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions and seated figures facing each other.
This artifact is a rounded-top limestone stela characterized by detailed incised hieroglyphic script arranged in vertical columns. The lower section depicts two seated figures facing each other, each holding objects in their hands. The stela exhibits artistry typical of ancient Egyptian reliefs, with a border of hieroglyphs extending around the figures. Notable is the winged sun disk at the top, a common protective motif.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Ra
Materials
limestone
Signs
Ankh ×2
Djed
Visible text
"nTr nfr nb tAwy"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246434 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 17.2.6 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544797 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.
- 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.