Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Nose and lips of Akhenaten
Description
Indurated 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 stone fragment depicting a portion of a face, with a focus on the nose and lips.
This artifact is a fragment of a larger sculpture, showcasing detailed carving techniques typical of ancient Egyptian art. The piece is composed of stone, with visible wear and cracks indicating its antiquity. The depiction focuses on the nose and lips, suggesting it once belonged to a statue or relief of significant size. The smoothness and realistic representation are indicative of skilled craftsmanship.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247477 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.1395 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544710 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.
- 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.