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Stela of the Lady of the House, Tabiemmut

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 27.2.5. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 27.2.5
Find spot: Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Third Intermediate Period (Kushite)–Late Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 25–26
Date: ca. 750–525 B.C.
Date range: 750 BCE – 525 BCE
Materials: ['wood', 'paint', 'gesso']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Stela of the Lady of the House, Tabiemmut (27.2.5). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/51187

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Description

Stela, Tabiemmut. Third Intermediate Period (Kushite)–Late Period, Dynasty 25–26, ca. 750–525 B.C. Wood, paint, gesso. H: 43 cm (16 15/16 in); W: 29 cm (11 7/16). From: Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Subject: Women, Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1927.

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.

Painted, arch-topped stela showing multiple standing figures and a register with hieroglyphic text.

The image depicts an arch-shaped Egyptian stela with a thick outer border. Inside, a upper band contains a winged/feathered motif over a central scene with standing figures and symbols. Beneath is a larger register with a row of several person-like figures wearing short kilts and holding objects (appearing as offerings or staffs), arranged laterally in front of a greenish ground. Two broad fields of black hieroglyphic signs fill the middle-to-lower area; individual sign forms are present but too small to reliably transcribe and no complete cartouche is clearly legible at this resolution. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. The overall surface is polychrome (greens, reds, blacks, and ochres), consistent with painted gesso on a prepared support.

religious Third Intermediate Period (Kushite)–Late Period (as catalogued) good

Materials paintgessowood (support implied by stela form; not explicitly confirmable from image)

Signs Hieroglyphic text (multiple signs; exact identification unclear) ×50

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri

Materials Paint Gesso

Cross-references (4)

Wikidata-Q Q116256475 tier-1
Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
Inventory-Number 27.2.5 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
MET-Object 550790 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)

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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.