Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Round-topped Stela of Wenenkhu
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 carved limestone stela depicting two seated figures in prayer beneath a sun disk with a deity.
The artifact is a limestone stela featuring two seated human figures in prayer. Above them is a sun disk containing a deity figure, likely representing a solar deity. The stela is carved in bas-relief, with well-preserved hieroglyphic inscriptions present in the rectangular sections surrounding the figures. The craftsmanship suggests attention to detail, with distinct lines and well-defined hieroglyphs.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Re
Materials
limestone
Signs
ankh ×2
sun disk
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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.
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