Royal Lute Player
Description
Object Label: When still intact, the scene from which this relief comes showed one of Akhenaten's daughters playing a lute in a boat floating through reeds in the Nile marshes. The thumb and index finger of the princess's right hand strum the chords, while the long delicate fingers of her left hand press down on the lute strings. Caption: Royal Lute Player, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 21 x 9 1/4 in. (53.3 x 23.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 60.197.9. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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 relief fragment depicting a seated/musician figure playing or holding a stringed instrument-like object, shown against a background with vertical striped elements and scattered relief details.
The object is a rectangular limestone relief fragment with weathered but still discernible carved forms. A prominent human figure is rendered in profile/three-quarter view, seated, with one arm lifted toward a large, vertical, panel-like or instrument-related element. The relief background includes vertical, ribbed or pleated stripes behind or adjacent to the figure, creating a fan/curtain-like backdrop. Additional carved details appear to include a small raised element near the figure’s head/upper body area, and wing-like or patterned motifs to the left side. There is no clearly legible hieroglyphic text on the visible surface in this image, and no cartouche is clearly identifiable. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. Pigment is not clearly distinguishable in the provided monochrome image, though the catalogue lists pigment; therefore pigment cannot be confirmed visually here.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 60.197.9 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3701 tier-2
About this record's data
- 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.