Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Block Statue of Porter Amenemhat Ptolemaic PeriodKarnak
Description
Ptolemaic Period, 4th century B.C. Basalt. H. 32.1 × W. 14.6 × D. 14.3 cm (12 5/8 × 5 3/4 × 5 5/8 in.). From: Temple of Amun, Cachette, Karnak, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Gift of Mrs. S. W. Straus, 1925.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
An inscription-like vertical column of hieroglyphic signs is visible on the front panel, but individual signs are not clearly legible in the image resolution/lighting.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116726717 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 25.184.15 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547799 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.