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

Relief with cartouches of Akhenaten and the Aten and the name of Kiya

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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.

An ancient Egyptian stone slab with hieroglyphic inscriptions.

The artifact is a rectangular stone slab carved with several columns of hieroglyphics. The inscriptions are well-preserved, displaying a series of cartouches and other symbols. The craftsmanship and style suggest skilled artisanship with precise engravings depicting traditional Egyptian iconography. The slab's surface is slightly weathered, indicating its antiquity.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom good
Materials limestone
Signs ankh djed

Connections

Royals Akhenaten
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116245876 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 1991.237.70 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544989 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.