Head from a Shabty of King Akhenaten
Description
Caption: Head from a Shabty of King Akhenaten, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Quartzite, 3 3/8 x 3 11/16 x 2 7/8 in. (8.6 x 9.3 x 7.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 35.1867. (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.
A fragment of a stone sculpture depicting the head of a figure wearing a headdress.
The fragment shows a finely carved head, likely part of a larger statue, with a serene expression and symmetrical features. The figure wears a traditional Egyptian headdress, suggesting it may represent a pharaoh or deity. The style is consistent with royal portraiture, characterized by idealized facial features.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 35.1867 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3372 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.