Arm (?)
Description
Arm (?). New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353–1336 B.C. Limestone. H. 6 × W. 4 × D. 2 cm (2 3/8 × 1 9/16 × 13/16 in.). From: Great Temple of the Aten, Pit outside southern wall, Amarna (Akhetaten), Middle Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: Petrie/Carter excavations, 1891–92. Credit: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A light-colored limestone fragment showing a mostly flat face and worn edges; a small painted/ink inscription-like marking appears near the center-lower area.
The image shows a detached stone fragment with rounded, chipped edges, consistent with a broken sculptural element. The main surface is smooth to gently pebbled, with several shallow tool marks and weathering. No clear carved relief figures or anatomical details are visible; only a faint, possibly modern red/ink numbering or labeling is present near the lower center (appearing as “21.9.465”). There are no legible ancient hieroglyphs, cartouches, or readable Greek/Coptic/Arabic text visible. The object’s exact iconographic identification is therefore uncertain based on the photograph alone, though its material and cataloged general form (limestone “Arm (?)”) are not contradicted by the lack of conflicting features.
Inscriptions (1)
Visible text (machine reading)
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116272837 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 21.9.465 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 550037 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.