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Fragment, Aten cartouche

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Description

New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353–1336 B.C. Yellow quartzite. H. 12.8 × W. 16.6 × D. 9.4 cm (5 1/16 × 6 9/16 × 3 11/16 in.). From: 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.

Stone fragment carved in sunk relief with part of an elongated cartouche-like sign and surrounding hieroglyphic elements.

The image shows a roughly rectangular, broken stone fragment with rounded edges, carved in relief on a single face. Several hieroglyphic motifs are visible in shallow, recessed lines: an oval/looped element with a central figure-like form sits near the upper middle; to its left and right are other glyph strokes and band-like horizontal lines. Additional rectangular and wedge-shaped marks appear across the lower field, suggesting a continuation of a royal titulary/carthouche text. No full cartouche name is preserved, and the remaining signs are not clear enough to securely read as a specific Aten cartouche. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom, Amarna Period (provisional, consistent with Aten cartouche context) fragmentary
Deities Aten (inferred from catalogue; not directly legible)
Materials stone (quartzite per catalogue; cannot confirm from image alone)
Signs cartouche/oval loop element (partial; exact name unclear) horizontal band/text lines and adjacent hieroglyph strokes (partial) ×3 additional boxed/rectangular hieroglyph elements (partial) ×2
Visible text "Partial carved hieroglyphic/cartouche elements; exact Aten cartouche text not fully legible in the provided image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Partial carved hieroglyphic/cartouche elements; exact Aten cartouche text not fully legible in the provided image.

Connections

Found at Amarna (Akhetaten)
Deities Aten

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116272824 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 21.9.446 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 550051 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.