Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Miniature Stela of Ahmose
Description
Steatite (glazed)
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 faience stele depicting two seated figures with hieroglyphs above them.
The artifact is a small faience stele, showcasing two seated figures facing each other. The figures are rendered in a simplistic style typical of Egyptian art, with hieroglyphic inscriptions above their heads. The background features additional hieroglyphic engraving. This type of composition often suggests a religious or funerary scene, with the vibrant blue-green glaze providing a symbolic and aesthetic appeal.
religious
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Signs
seated man with hand to mouth ×2
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243387 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.2.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545751 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.