Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Door Jamb of Sitepihu
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.
An inscribed stone slab with vertical hieroglyphic text.
This artifact is a tall, narrow stone slab featuring vertical lines of hieroglyphic inscriptions. The carving style is meticulous, with clear outlines and detailed symbols common in official inscriptions. The stone shows signs of age, with some edges chipped, but the main text is largely intact. The composition focuses solely on hieroglyphic symbols with no accompanying images or depictions of people or deities.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
ankh ×2
djed
was
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116274790 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 00.4.60 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548674 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.