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Inscribed Stone from Hatshepsut's Valley Temple New KingdomAsasif, Birabi
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1458 B.C. Quartzite, ink. H 17.5 × W 14.7 × D 6 cm (6 7/8 × 5 13/16 × 2 3/8 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 555105).
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- MMA 32.3.287 PNM textDeir el-Bahri
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)
Incised hieroglyphic signs in one main field; specific transcription unclear due to wear.
Cross-references (5)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243764 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 32.3.287 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 555105 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- PNM-Object pnm:83914484 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.