Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Statue of Roy Chanting the Solar Hymn Written on His Stela
Description
Limestone, 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 kneeling figure holds a stela with hieroglyphs.
The artifact features a carefully sculpted kneeling figure, likely crafted from limestone, wearing a detailed wrap-around garment painted in subtle colors, holding a prominently inscribed stela. The hieroglyphs are arranged in neat vertical columns, characteristic of meticulous craftsmanship. The style suggests a focus on funerary or religious practices.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
limestonepaint
Signs
ankh
djed
Visible text
"Unknown hieroglyphs currently not transcribed"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246401 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 17.190.1960 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544813 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.