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

Rim from a libation basin l (?) with the prenomen of Akhenaten alone followed by the queen's titles

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Diorite

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.

The image depicts a fragmentary piece of stone with inscriptions, including a cartouche.

This artifact is a fragment of stone featuring several inscriptions in hieroglyphs. Notably, it includes a cartouche, which suggests a royal connection. The surface appears weathered, indicating its age and historical significance.

royal unknown fragmentary
Materials stone
Visible text "Cartouche present; specific hieroglyphs/readable text are obscured or unclear."

Connections

Royals Akhenaten
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116272823 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 21.9.438 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 550049 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.