Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Donation Stela of Shabaqo
Description
Limestone
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 ancient Egyptian stela showing three standing figures accompanied by hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a well-preserved limestone stela featuring three figures standing in profile, possibly deities or royals, each with distinct headgear and scepters. It includes detailed hieroglyphic inscriptions above and below the figures. The style is typical of traditional Egyptian relief, with a focus on profile views and hieratic scaling. The stela is intact, with minor edge deterioration.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
AnubisThoth
Materials
limestone
Signs
Ankh ×2
Was scepter
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413709 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 55.144.6 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544880 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.