Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Back pillar of Torso with titles and cartouche 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 limestone fragment with hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a fragmentary piece of limestone with clearly incised hieroglyphs. The carving style suggests careful workmanship. The surface is somewhat worn but the hieroglyphs remain legible, indicative of its antiquity. The piece is likely part of a larger inscription or decorative panel.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
Horus name
Ankh
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116272827 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 57.180.3 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 550042 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.