Tally stone from Hatshepsut's Valley Temple
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1458 B.C. Limestone, ink. H 22 × W 18.5 × D 7.5 cm (8 11/16 × 7 5/16 × 2 15/16 in.). From: foot of Hatshepsut's causeway, Ptolemaic radim, Asasif, Birabi, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1915–16. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1932.
The same text in other collections
Linked by shared inventory number
(MET-Object 555098).
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- MMA 32.3.264 PNM textDeir el-Bahri
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.
A roughly rectangular limestone tally/mark stone showing a bordered vertical register with a small figure or sign and a circular element at the top.
The object appears to be a broken, off-white limestone fragment with a centrally placed, rounded-rectangle (cartouche-like) outline. Inside the outline is a small incised motif: a circular loop or disk near the top, and below it a stylized seated/standing figure-like arrangement with arms/arms-like strokes and a rectangular base or support. Along the lower edge and outside the inner border are a few short incised strokes that may represent tally marks or additional notations. No clearly legible hieroglyphic lines are preserved beyond the central sign and surrounding short strokes. There is no visible pigment/ink in this image, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present.
Cross-references (5)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243768 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 32.3.264 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 555098 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- PNM-Object pnm:83914468 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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.