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Arm with Aten cartouches

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Description

Arm, Aten cartouches. New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353–1336 B.C. Red quartzite. H. 7.5 × W. 9.7 × D. 6.4 cm (2 15/16 × 3 13/16 × 2 1/2 in.); cartouche: W. 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.). From: Great Temple of the Aten, pit outside southern wall, Amarna (Akhetaten), Middle Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: Petrie/Carter excavations, 1891–92. Credit: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957.

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.

Stone arm-shaped fragment bearing incised hieroglyphic cartouche-style markings on one side.

The object appears as a roughly shaped, hand/arm-like stone fragment with a curved profile. One side contains shallow, incised hieroglyphic signs forming rectangular cartouche-like frames and additional vertical strokes. The right side shows a dense field of vertical, evenly spaced striations that may be part of the carved decoration or the reverse side’s surface treatment. No clear figures of deities are visible; only signs are present. Lettering is worn and partially obscured by pitting, but multiple cartouche-like enclosures can be distinguished, consistent with the catalogue’s identification of Aten cartouches, though the exact reading of the signs is not fully certain from this image alone.

royal New Kingdom, Amarna Period (c. reign of Akhenaten), based on catalogue ground truth; exact sign reading uncertain visually. fragmentary
Deities Aten
Royals Aten (cartouche style; exact royal name(s) unclear)
Materials stone (red quartzite per catalogue)
Signs Cartouche/enclosure containing Aten-related royal titulary (unreadable exact text) ×2
Visible text "Incised hieroglyphic cartouche-like enclosures with worn internal signs; exact excerpt unreadable from the provided image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Incised hieroglyphic cartouche-like enclosures with worn internal signs; exact excerpt unreadable from the provided image.

Connections

Found at Amarna (Akhetaten)
Deities Aten

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116273625 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 57.180.50 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 567644 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
  • 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.