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

Relief with titles of Akhenaten

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Description

Limestone, paint (mostly modern)

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 fragment of an ancient Egyptian artifact with engraved hieroglyphs.

The artifact is a rectangular stone fragment featuring a vertical arrangement of hieroglyphs. The craftsmanship suggests a focus on textual rather than pictorial representation, with the signs deeply carved into the stone. The surface shows signs of wear, which may indicate its historical usage or exposure to environmental conditions over time.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials limestone
Signs unknown ×15

Connections

Royals Akhenaten
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116245887 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 1991.237.66 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544985 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.