Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Akhenaten Sacrificing a Duck
Description
Limestone, paint
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 showing a figure holding a stick or staff.
The image depicts a carved relief panel with a prominent figure on the left, holding a curved stick or object, possibly involved in a significant activity or ritual. The artwork is rendered in a typical ancient Egyptian style with intricate detailing and use of red pigment on a limestone surface. The composition is balanced and possibly part of a larger narrative scene.
daily life
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
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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.