Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Funerary Figure of Akhenaten

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Description

Quartzite (red)

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.

Small sculpture of an Egyptian pharaoh.

The artifact is a small statue depicting a pharaoh, characterized by a headdress and traditional royal attributes. The sculpture is crafted from stone, showing signs of wear and erosion. The style suggests it was created to depict royalty, with simplified facial features and detailed headdress.

royal unknown good
Materials stone

Connections

Royals Akhenaten
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116243165 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 66.99.35 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545905 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.