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

Tablet with cartouches of Aten, Akhenaten and Nefertiti

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

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 limestone fragment with detailed hieroglyphic inscriptions.

The artifact is a fragment of limestone featuring well-preserved hieroglyphs. The inscriptions are in a standard vertical column arrangement, with some symbols arranged horizontally. Notable features include the presence of a cartouche and symbols depicting common hieroglyphic elements like birds and reeds. The carving style is typical of ancient Egyptian relief art, with precise and clear lines.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials limestone
Signs Ankh Reed ×2 Owl
Visible text "Approximate transcription of visible hieroglyphs"

Connections

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116272822 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 21.9.5 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 550052 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.