Early Image of Nefertiti
Description
Object Label: Nefertiti raises her arm in an attitude of prayer or offering. Originally the god Aten, as the sun disk, appeared above her. The two tiny hands in front of the queen’s face belong to streams of light coming from the Aten. One of these hands holds an ankh (the hieroglyph for “life”) to Nefertiti’s nose, so that she can receive from the Aten the “breath of life,” given to the faithful. Caption: Early Image of Nefertiti, ca. 1352–1347 B.C.E.. Sandstone, pigment, 6 11/16 x 10 1/4 x 1 3/16 in. (17 x 26 x 3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 64.199.2. (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 fragmented sandstone relief/block showing part of a human figure with a hand raised toward a circular/medallion-like element, with visible incised/painted decorative lines on one side.
The image shows a weathered, broken sandstone piece with red-orange pigment remnants. The left side preserves a stylized portion of a human head or upper face area and a hand/arm positioned near the center. A dark diagonal element (possibly a tool mark, crack, or piece of retained relief) crosses the surface. On the right side there is a prominent circular/looped form rendered in light material, which may be part of an ornament or symbolic element, but it is not clear enough to identify as a specific hieroglyph or royal icon. No legible hieroglyphic text, cartouches, or identifiable deity attributes are clearly visible on the fragment. The left panel includes linear, ribbed or pleated decorative strokes that could relate to clothing or a background pattern, but the figure’s full iconography (including whether it is Nefertiti) is not recoverable from the fragment.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 64.199.2 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3733 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.