Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Unfinished Funerary Stela for a Family, Space Left Blank for Name
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.
The artifact depicts a seated figure with offerings and attendants.
The limestone stele features a carved scene with a central seated figure, likely of high status or divinity, accompanied by standing figures presenting offerings. The style includes classic Egyptian proportions with detailed hieroglyphs beneath the scene. The composition conveys a ritual or offering scene, typical of Egyptian art.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Horus
Materials
limestone
Signs
eye of Horus ×2
ankh
Visible text
"Htp-di-nsw"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116275121 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 23.3.48 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548517 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.