Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Block fragment with cartouche of Akhenaten
Description
yellow quartzite
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 fragmentary piece of limestone with visible hieroglyphs.
This artifact is a broken piece of limestone featuring several parallel horizontal lines and carved Egyptian hieroglyphs. The design is simple and likely part of a larger inscription or scene. The fragment is irregularly shaped with a roughly textured surface and signs of weathering.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
mountain
reed
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116272825 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 21.9.445 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 550050 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.