Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Stela of Intef and Nesumontu
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 painted limestone slab depicting two male figures with hieroglyphic inscriptions above.
The artifact is a painted limestone slab featuring two male figures facing forward, each holding a staff. They are adorned with white kilts and jewelry, and the figures are depicted in a traditional Egyptian style with red skin coloration, indicative of male gender in ancient Egyptian art. Above them are rows of hieroglyphic inscriptions. The slab has a well-preserved paintwork, and the composition is symmetrical, typical of decorative and commemorative scenes.
decorative
Old Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
ankh
djed
crook
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280497 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.327 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546944 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.