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Inscribed pillar and support area against body

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Description

Inscribed support fragments, Aten cartouches. New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353–1336 B.C. Indurated limestone. H. 9.5 × W. 13.6 × D. 13.5 cm (3 3/4 × 5 3/8 × 5 5/16 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.

A roughly triangular fragment of an inscribed limestone pillar/surface with a shallow relief hieroglyphic marking visible on one face.

The image shows a broken fragment of a light-colored limestone object with one main face displaying shallow carved decoration and a single clear circular motif consistent with an ovoid/loop-like hieroglyph element. Near the lower left edge there are additional shallow incised/relief marks that are too fragmentary to identify precisely. The reverse/bottom portion appears plain and fractured, indicating the object is incomplete. No clearly readable royal titulary, deities, or full inscriptions are visible, and there is no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text present in the image.

decorative New Kingdom, Amarna Period (as catalogued; inscription too fragmentary to refine from image alone) fragmentary
Materials limestone (light-colored, carved surface visible)indurated limestone (as catalogued)
Signs Circular/ovoid hieroglyph element (exact sign unclear)

Connections

Found at Amarna (Akhetaten)
Deities Aten

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116273478 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 57.180.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 549658 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.
  • 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.