Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela

Stela of Reniseneb

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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.

An ancient Egyptian stela with detailed carvings and hieroglyphic inscriptions.

The artifact is a limestone stela featuring multiple registers of relief carvings depicting figures in profile, possibly including deities and worshippers. The upper portion of the stela contains hieroglyphic inscriptions. The style of the carvings is typical of formal Egyptian art, with a focus on maintaining a standard profile view and hierarchical proportions. Notable features include rows of figures, some of which appear to be offering or ritualistic scenes.

religious New Kingdom fragmentary
Deities AmunRa
Materials limestone
Signs ankh ×3 djed ×2
Visible text "nTr nfr nb pt"

Connections

Found at Abydos
Deities AmunRa
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116235381 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 63.154 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545503 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.