Harvest Ritual(?)
Description
Object Label: The scene of an individual—by his or her size, surely royal—grasping stalks of grain has no parallel at el Amarna. It may represent a harvest ritual honoring the ancient fertility god Min. A festival for any god but the Aten at el Amarna could only have been celebrated after Akhenaten's death, during the two years before Tutankhaten returned Egypt's capital to Thebes. It may even depict a rite carried out at Tutankhaten's coronation. Caption: Harvest Ritual(?), ca. 1352–1334 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 9 3/16 x 20 1/2 in. (23.4 x 52 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 60.197.2. (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.
Fragment of an Egyptian relief depicting a royal figure in profile.
This fragmentary limestone relief shows a royal figure in profile, with notable stylized features typical of royal depictions. The figure wears a headdress and is set against a plain background, with weathered surfaces indicating age. The style suggests a traditional approach to royal portraiture with an emphasis on outlines.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 60.197.2 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3696 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.
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