Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef
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.
A carved limestone stela featuring detailed hieroglyphs and seated figures.
The artifact is a limestone stela depicting two seated figures facing a table laden with offerings. The top and sides are adorned with rows of hieroglyphs. In the lower register, scenes of daily life and provisions are depicted, including figures leading livestock. The stela is intricately carved, showcasing skilled craftsmanship typical of Egyptian reliefs.
funerary
Old Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
Ankh ×5
Djed ×2
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244276 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 57.95 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545393 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.