Trial Piece of Akhenaten
Description
Caption: Trial Piece of Akhenaten, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Limestone, 7 3/16 x 8 11/16 x 2 in. (18.3 x 22.1 x 5.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Society, 36.880. (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.
The image depicts a profile of a carved human head on a stone block.
The artifact shows a carved relief of a human head in profile, likely representing a person of importance given the stylized depiction. The lines are elegantly etched into the stone, with attention to facial features and headwear. The style is indicative of ancient Egyptian artistic practices, with a focus on profile views and prominent facial outlines.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 36.880 tier-2
- BKM-Object 46932 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.