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Tile from Side of Stairway to Dais

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Description

Tile, palace of Ramesses II. New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19, reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1279–1213 B.C. Faience, Paste. L. 26 cm (10 1/4 in.), W. 20.3 cm (8 in.), D. 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.). From: Palace of Ramesses II, Qantir (Piramesse), Eastern Delta, Egypt. Credit: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Edward S. Harkness Gift and by exchange, 1922, 1929, 1935.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

The image shows a stylized reconstruction/drawing of an Egyptian stairway to a dais with decorated tilework along the corner/side. The tiles depict processional or ceremonial figures and columns of ornamented bands inside the stairway corner.

A schematic line drawing presents a stepped stairway leading to a raised platform (dais). The corner interior of the stairway is filled with rectangular tile blocks featuring repeating scenes/figures rendered in outlined profiles. The border bands along the inner edge and the upper framing are decorated with regular geometric patterning (small repeated vertical/linear motifs) and brick/block-like trim. No close-up of a single tile is shown; instead the drawing emphasizes the overall decorative layout of the stairway corner and the tiled panel surfaces. No legible individual hieroglyphs are clearly resolved in this view, and there is no visible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text.

decorative New Kingdom, Ramesside period (per catalogue) fragmentary
Materials faience (implied by catalogue; not directly verifiable from line drawing)paste (implied by catalogue; not directly verifiable from line drawing)

Connections

Found at Qantir (Piramesse)
Royals Ramesses II

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116415482 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 35.1.11 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548444 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.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.