Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture

Nectanebo II Offers to Osiris Hemag

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Description

Granodiorite

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 stone panel shows multiple figures of Egyptian deities offering or presenting gifts, accompanied by dense hieroglyphic inscriptions and ritual scenes.

The artifact is a rectangular, weathered stone relief featuring three standing, human-headed figures with wigs and tripartite-style costumes, arranged across the panel. Each figure is shown in profile or three-quarter view with one arm bent as if holding an offering or tool, and the other extended downward. Behind and between them are carved columns and bands of hieroglyphs and additional iconographic elements, including a central seated/standing form at the upper middle and a figure at the far right with a falcon-like head or animal headdress, partly damaged. The overall composition and subject matter appear consistent with Late Period temple relief offering scenes, where a king (or royal representative) offers to a god; however, the specific royal name and the named deity in the catalogue title cannot be confirmed with certainty from the image resolution and damage. The hieroglyphs are clearly present but individual signs are not confidently legible at this scale. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.

religious Late Period (per catalogue) fragmentary
Deities unknown/unclear (Egyptian god(s) represented; catalogue specifies Osiris but this cannot be confirmed from the image alone)
Royals unknown/unclear (Nectanebo II not legible from this image)
Materials stone (granodiorite per catalogue)
Signs unknown hieroglyphic groups (not legible enough to assign Gardiner codes) ×30

Connections

Deities Osiris
Royals Nectanebo II
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116246219 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 12.182.4c tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544888 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.