FITZ-AntE
Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian) · stela
stelae
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- Fitzwilliam E.SS.37 PNM textMFR
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.
Photograph of an inscribed Egyptian stone stela fragment showing registers of hieroglyphic text and a lower scene with two standing figures before a deity or symbolic figure.
The image depicts a roughly rectangular, tapering stone stela fragment with rounded top edges and a chipped lower left corner. The surface is covered with incised/painted hieroglyphs arranged in horizontal lines across the middle and upper sections. In the lower register, two to three human figures stand facing inward toward a larger central figure; the central figure appears to hold a staff or implement and is flanked by attendants. Above or near the figures there is also a small cluster of larger symbols or glyph groups that may indicate a name or offering formula, though the text is too worn and low-resolution to read precisely. No clearly visible cartouche (royal ring) is discernible. The back/edges show stone with weathering and minor breaks. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.
religious
Middle Kingdom (as catalogued); inscription and style broadly consistent but precise dating not determinable from the image alone
fragmentary
Deities
unknown
Materials
stone (limestone or sandstone; exact type unclear)
Signs
hieroglyphic signs in horizontal lines (unreadable)
Inscriptions (3)
Inscription #1
· Egyptian Hieroglyphs
· Egyptian
· on main text
Transcription
Htp di nsw ptH rsy inb.f nb anx-tAwy wsir nb Ddw di.sn prt-xrw t Hnqt kA Apdw Htpw DfAw m prt Hr xAyt Hr wDHw nb-(r-)Dr n kA n iry-pat HAty-a sAw r it.f m Hwt-nTr ra prt spdt wr xrp Hmwt n nb r Dr Hm-nTr aA n nTr.f Xry-Hb snbwy mAa-xrwEnglish description
six lines of hieroglyphs, orientated from right to left
Translations (1)
An offering given by the king to Ptah, the southern of his wall, lord of Ankhtawy, Osiris, lord of Djedu, that they may give invocation offerings of bread, beer, oxen, fowl, offerings, and provisions, every good and pure thing, to the ka of the hereditary noble and count, overseer of the gateway of his father, in the temple of Re, and the Great Hypsir of the Harpoon, chief director of craftsmen, servant of his lord, the great priest of his god, the lector priest, Senebwy, true of voice.
Inscription #2
· Egyptian Hieroglyphs
· Egyptian
· on in front of the woman
Transcription
Hmt.f mrt.f Xkrt-nswt, nbw-m-Hb (mAat-xrw)English description
vertical hieroglyphs, orientated from left to right, possibly sharing the mAa-xrw-signs to the left of her head
Translations (1)
His wife, his beloved, the royal ornament, Nebui-em-Heb, justified
Inscription #3
· Egyptian Hieroglyphs
· Egyptian
· on above the head of the man at the bottom right
Transcription
sA ra-stX mAa-xrwConnections
Found at
Memphis
Cross-references (1)
- PNM-Object pnm:83887066 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian).
- 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.