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Inscribed Stone from Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 32.3.287. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 32.3.287
Find spot: Asasif, Birabi, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
Date: ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
Date range: 1479 BCE – 1458 BCE
Materials: ['quartzite', 'ink']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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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

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, weathered stone block with incised Egyptian hieroglyph-like signs arranged in horizontal registers, photographed against a plain studio background.

The image shows a small stone fragment (quartzite per catalogue) with a flat face containing shallow, chisel-like incisions. The carvings appear in two or more vertical columns and a base row resembling a ground line, with several sign shapes including looped/oval elements and angular strokes. No painted ink is clearly visible in the photo; the marks read as incised/engraved rather than applied pigment. The stone is worn and chipped at the edges, reducing legibility of specific signs. No cartouche is clearly identifiable from the visible signs, and no royal name can be confirmed. There is no Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text visible.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom (per catalogue; exact reign/signs unclear from image) fragmentary

Materials quartzite (stone substrate)

Signs incised hieroglyphic/ornamental signs (exact types unclear) ×8

Visible text "Incised hieroglyphic signs in one main field; specific transcription unclear due to wear."

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.

Connections

Found at Asasif

Royals Hatshepsut

Materials Quartzite

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)

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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.