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Name Stone of Senenmut

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1458 B.C. Limestone. H. 26 cm (10 1/4 in.); W. 36.5 cm (14 3/8 in.); D. 22.5 cm (8 7/8 in.). From: Radim, Tomb of Senenmut (TT 71) or below, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1930–31. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1936.

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 shaped limestone name-stone fragment bearing carved black hieroglyphs on a flat face.

The artifact appears to be a light-colored, irregular limestone block with a weathered surface and a broken/abraded right edge. On the visible face, several black-painted or inked hieroglyphic signs are carved or inscribed in a compact cluster. The signs include a combination of wedge-like (𓠹/𓏏 style) and zigzag/wave-like strokes, with at least one horizontal line and small stacked elements; however, the full word or any clear cartouche boundaries are not preserved in the image. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. Due to damage and partial legibility, specific identification of Senenmut’s name or a complete royal/owner cartouche cannot be confirmed from the image alone.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom (as catalogued; inscriptions likely administrative/biographical) fragmentary
Materials limestone
Signs Unclear hieroglyph cluster (wedge/stacked strokes; zigzag/wave-like elements) ×10
Visible text "Hieroglyphs present but not fully legible in the provided image; no confident excerpt for Senenmut’s name/cartouche can be extracted."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Hieroglyphs present but not fully legible in the provided image; no confident excerpt for Senenmut’s name/cartouche can be extracted.

Connections

Found at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116276618 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 36.3.242 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 560253 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.