Akhenaten as a Sphinx
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-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.
An ancient Egyptian stone relief depicting a sphinx with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a stone relief showing a sphinx, characterized by a lion's body and a human head, indicating its symbolic significance. The composition includes several hieroglyphics above the sphinx, suggesting a possible association with deities or royalty. The craftsmanship is typical of ancient Egyptian artistic styles, with attention to symbolic and religious motifs.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 36.881 tier-2
- BKM-Object 46933 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.