Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue
Head of Akhenaten
Description
Caption: Head of Akhenaten, 20th Century. Limestone, pigment, 8 3/8 x 7 3/16 in. (21.3 x 18.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Maguid Sameda, 59.4. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A damaged bust of an ancient Egyptian statue with visible inscriptions.
The image depicts a fragmentary bust of what appears to be an ancient Egyptian statue, with significant surface erosion and missing sections, especially around the face. The bust is made of stone and shows worn carving details. Notably, there are hieroglyphs on the lower section, indicating it might be part of a larger composition originally.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Signs
unknown ×2
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 59.4 tier-2
- BKM-Object 75102 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- 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.