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-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 relief depicting a pharaoh offering to a deity.
This is a finely carved limestone relief showing a pharaoh, identifiable by the traditional regalia, offering a bouquet to a deity. The style is characteristic of the Amarna period with elongated forms and detailed facial features. Hieroglyphics are present above the figures.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 71.89 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3805 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.