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Funerary Stele

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Description

<p>This sunk relief stele depicts two men facing one another, each holding a sceptre and a flail. The men wear a long and short kilt. There are hieroglyphs above and between them. The piece has a rope border and has been repaired across the center with small restored areas. The piece was chipped on arrival, and has a wood frame.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.424' rel='external'>Funerary Stele</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

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 carved limestone funerary stele panel with two standing, mummiform figures in front of vertical columns of hieroglyphs.

The image shows a rectangular stone slab bordered by a thin frame line. Most of the surface is filled with hieroglyphic text arranged in several horizontal registers near the top and in vertical/stacked columns above and around architectural-like elements in the center. Two human figures appear on the lower left and lower right, both shown standing with arms raised toward their faces/chests and wearing long, vertically aligned garments; each figure is rendered with dark-filled outlines and lighter interior details. Between and above the figures are vertical structural elements resembling door-jambs or framed panels, with additional small signs inside/around the central area. No clear cartouche is visible; the inscriptions are present but too unclear to confidently transcribe.

funerary unknown (dynastic period; precise date unclear from image quality) good
Materials limestone (stone surface with weathering and carved relief)
Signs multiple unidentifiable hieroglyph groups (upright columns and horizontal registers) ×50

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1

English description

[Inscription] Above and between the men

Cross-references (2)

  • Walters-AccNum 22.424 tier-2
  • Walters-id 11921 tier-2

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  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Walters Art Museum (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.