Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Stela fragment depicting Pay adoring Re-Harakhty
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.
A scene depicting a figure presenting offerings to a sun disk deity.
This relief shows a figure on the left making offerings to a large sun disk deity on the right. The deity is depicted with a sun disk above their head, holding a was-sceptre, suggestive of royal or divine authority. The figures are carved in a traditional Egyptian style, with hieroglyphs occupying the top portion of the scene. The clothing style and iconography are typical of Egyptian religious representations.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Ra
Materials
limestone
Signs
ankh
was
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414753 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 04.2.527 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546627 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.