Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela

Stela of the Heb Sed of Amenhotep III

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Description

Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

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 ancient Egyptian sculpture fragment with visible hieroglyphs.

The artifact is a fragmentary piece of a sculpture, primarily composed of limestone. It features carved hieroglyphs on its surface, indicating its historical significance. The style is consistent with typical Egyptian reliefs with detailed inscriptions that might denote a name or statement. The surface shows some wear, typical of aged artifacts.

hieroglyphic only unknown fragmentary
Materials limestone
Signs unknown ×3

Connections

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116414537 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 55.78 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546060 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.