Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Magical stela or cippus of Horus
Description
Chlorite schist
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 depicting a protective deity flanked by smaller figures and hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a stela made of dark stone featuring a central figure identified as a protective deity, possibly Bes, standing prominently. The deity is depicted with distinctive iconography, including a lion or feline face and legs that are slightly apart. Surrounding the deity are smaller figures and numerous hieroglyphs. The composition is symmetrical and dense with symbols, typical of protective objects from the Late Period.
religious
Late Period
good
Deities
Bes
Materials
stone
Signs
Ankh ×3
Djed ×2
Wass scepter
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243365 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.2.23 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545766 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.