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

Stela of the temple servant of Amun Irtihareru adoring Re-Harakhty and Atum

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Description

Wood, gesso, paint

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.

Painted Egyptian stela showing a central seated figure before a shrine/facade, flanked by two standing offering-bearers, with registers of hieroglyphic text below and above.

The image depicts a roughly rectangular stela with a semicircular top. The upper curved zone contains a painted arch-like or shrine-and-courtyard scene with blue/green ground. A central standing or seated figure is placed within a doorway-like frame, flanked symmetrically by two human figures in green and white garments raising one arm toward offerings. In front of the central area are blocks of hieroglyphic signs arranged in horizontal lines; additional signs and small motifs appear in the top field. The painted palette includes red, green, black, white, and blue/teal. Individual hieroglyphs are visible but not confidently legible enough from the image resolution to extract reliable excerpts. The catalogue title mentions the temple servant of Amun Irtihareru adoring Re-Harakhty and Atum; while the stela clearly includes deities’ iconography cannot be confirmed precisely from this image, solar/Atum-Re related imagery is not clearly identifiable beyond general divine/ritual setting. Material condition appears consistent with a plaster/gesso-painted object with cracking/chipping along edges.

religious Third Intermediate Period–Late Period (per catalogue) fragmentary
Deities unknown
Materials woodgessopaint
Signs Unidentified hieroglyphic signs in horizontal registers (not legible enough for secure identification) ×60

Connections

Found at Asasif
Deities AmunRaAtum

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116256473 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.3.57 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 550792 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.