Lips from a statue of king or queen
Description
Head of Akhenaten or Nefertiti, lips. New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353–1336 B.C. Indurated limestone. H. 4.4 × W. 3.8 × D. 1.8 cm (1 3/4 × 1 1/2 × 11/16 in.). From: Great Temple of the Aten, pit outside southern wall, Amarna (Akhetaten), Middle Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: Petrie/Carter excavations, 1891–92. Credit: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957.
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 shaped like a pair of lips, likely from a larger royal statue. Only the sculpted facial feature is visible; no readable inscriptions or crowns are present.
The object is a small, roughly rectangular/rounded fragment of pale stone that preserves the contour of a mouth with upper and lower lip modeling. The upper lip forms a rounded ridge, while the lower lip projects slightly forward. The surface shows tool marks and weathering, including a prominent crack running across the center and smaller splits around the edges. No hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other iconographic elements are visible on the fragment. The piece appears to be part of a larger carved stone figure (consistent with a statue feature), but the gender of the depicted person and any royal identity cannot be determined from this fragment alone.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116273510 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 57.180.84 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 549636 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.