Akhenaten and His Daughter Offering to the Aten
Description
Object Label: Akhenaten presents a formal bouquet to the Aten, whose rays, ending in tiny hands, stream down before the king. Only the king's arms, torso, and lower face are preserved. His daughter holds a rattle called a sistrum and wears her hair in an elaborate plaited sidelock, symbolizing youth. Caption: Akhenaten and His Daughter Offering to the Aten, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 8 15/16 × 20 5/16 × 1 1/4 in., 14.5 lb. (22.7 × 51.6 × 3.2 cm, 6.58kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund , 60.197.6.
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.
Relief showing a figure with raised arms, possibly a deity or a royal, with a smaller figure below possibly offering or worshipping.
The artifact is a limestone relief depicting a standing figure with arms raised, which could represent a deity or royal personage, indicated by the posture and association with divine elements like sun rays. The smaller figure below appears to be in a pose of worship or offering, common in depictions of reverence toward higher entities. The style suggests detailed carving with subtle coloring using red pigments, indicative of typical Egyptian artistic styles.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 60.197.6 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3699 tier-2
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- 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.
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