Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Stela of Senu Adoring Osiris
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 relief depicts a seated figure of a deity with an offering scene involving another figure.
This limestone stele showcases a seated deity adorned with traditional headdress and holding a scepter. In front of the deity, a figure possibly representing a worshipper is making offerings. The composition includes hieroglyphic texts above and surrounding the figures, featuring both vertical and horizontal arrangements. The craftsmanship is typical of Egyptian stelae, with detailed carvings and iconographic elements such as ankh and scepters.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
unknown
Materials
limestone
Signs
Ankh ×2
Scepter
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415550 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 18.2.5 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548593 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.