Nefertiti
Description
Object Label: Occasionally we can identify one of the members of the Amarna royal family by a unique characteristic. The woman on this column drum has a tall, flat-topped crown worn exclusively by Nefertiti. This same headdress appears on the famous bust of the queen that is in the Berlin Museum. Caption: Nefertiti, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 9 1/4 × 15 × 1 3/4 in. (23.5 × 38.1 × 4.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 71.89. (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.
Limestone fragment carved in relief with a standing female figure wearing a tall headdress and raising her hands, alongside incised hieroglyphs and offering-like elements.
The image shows a rectangular, broken limestone relief panel. A central human figure stands in profile facing right, with a tall, conical/crowned headdress and a long garment drawn in shallow relief lines. The figure’s arms are raised with hands held open, resembling a gesture of offering/adoration. The right and upper areas contain several incised hieroglyphic signs (mostly eroded), arranged in lines; a few distinct sign shapes are visible but the full text is not clearly legible due to breakage and abrasion. No clearly identifiable royal cartouche is preserved; similarly, no deity determinatives or crowns unique to specific deities can be confirmed from the visible remains. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. Pigment is not clearly discernible in the provided lighting, though the catalogue states pigment was originally present.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 71.89 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3805 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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