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Door Jamb of Rau

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Description

Door Jamb, Rau. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1425 B.C. Limestone. H. 146.5 cm (57 11/16 in.); w 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.). Said to be from: Dra Abu el-Naga. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1926.

The same text in other collections

Linked by shared inventory number (MET-Object 548675). Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

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.

A tall, rectangular limestone door-jamb panel carved in relief with dense lines of hieroglyphic text and figures, shown photographed against a dark display background.

The object is a vertically oriented stone jamb with its surface fully covered by incised/carved hieroglyphs arranged in closely spaced horizontal registers. Some signs include seated or standing iconographic elements and vertical rule-like framing lines. The relief is weathered but the overall layout of hieroglyphic columns/registers is clear. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic script is visible. No explicit royal cartouche is readily identifiable at this resolution; the catalog’s name “Rau” is not confirmable from a clearly legible cartouche in the provided image. The piece appears intact rather than fragmentary.

religious New Kingdom (as catalogued); hieroglyphic relief style consistent but not independently confirmable from the single image. good
Materials limestone
Signs hieroglyphic text in multiple registers ×200 cartouche-like frame elements (not clearly legible) ×2 eye/udjat-like element (uncertain)

Connections

Found at Dra Abu el-Naga
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (5)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116274792 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.2.54 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548675 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • PNM-Object pnm:83892651 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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.