Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Trial Piece with Relief of Head of Akhenaten
Description
Limestone
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 carved limestone relief depicting the profile of a figure with distinctive headgear.
The artifact is a limestone relief featuring the side profile of a figure carved in a simplistic yet stylistically refined manner. The figure is wearing a headdress which is indicative of royal or significant status. The carving is executed with fine lines, highlighting facial features and the contours of the headgear. No additional decorative elements or background scenes are present, and the surface is worn but generally intact.
royal
New Kingdom
good
Royals
Akhenaten
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243145 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 66.99.40 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545909 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- 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.
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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.