Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Trial piece of Akhenaten, on the reverse a horse's head
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 sandstone fragment depicting the profile of a human face, likely of a deity or royal figure.
The artifact is a fragment of sandstone featuring an intricately carved profile of a face. The depicted figure has an elongated eye and a refined, serene expression, characteristic of Egyptian art. Despite its fragmentary nature, the carving style suggests finesse and careful craftsmanship. There's an emphasis on the eye and eyebrow typical of divine or royal iconography.
unclear
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
sandstone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247650 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 21.9.13 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544527 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.