Stela of Pekysis
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 limestone stele depicting figures and inscriptions with a winged sun disk above.
The artifact is a carved limestone stele featuring several figures, including a human with a staff and a jackal-headed figure resembling Anubis, set beneath a winged sun disk, a common symbol in Egyptian iconography. Below the figures is a line of inscriptions in Greek, indicating a cultural blend of Egyptian and Greek influences. The style of the figures is somewhat rigid, typical of late period Egyptian art, with clear outlines and simplistic forms. The entire scene is framed within the rounded top of the stele.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243352 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.2.44 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545771 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.