Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Akhenaten as a Sphinx New Kingdom, Amarna PeriodTell el-Amarna, Egypt

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Description

Caption: Akhenaten as a Sphinx, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 9 3/4 × 15 × 7 1/4 in., 39.5 lb. (24.8 × 38.1 × 18.4 cm, 17.92kg). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Society, 36.881.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.

Connections

Royals Akhenaten
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 36.881 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 46933 tier-2
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