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Forearm with Aten cartouche

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Description

Forearm, Aten cartouche. New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353–1336 B.C. Indurated limestone. L. 15.5 × W. 7 × D. 6 cm (6 1/8 × 2 3/4 × 2 3/8 in.); Cartouche: W. 2.1 cm (13/16 in.). From: Great Temple of the Aten, Pit outside southern wall, Amarna (Akhetaten), Middle Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: Petrie/Carter excavations, 1891–92. Subject: Cartouches, Hieroglyphs. 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.

A carved limestone fragment shaped like a forearm (or forearm-plaque) with incised hieroglyphs on the visible face, including what appears to be an Aten-related cartouche inscription.

The image shows a pale, indurated limestone object with a vertical, elongated forearm-like form. The lower portion includes two incised cartouche-like/rectangular sign fields with curved ends, separated by a vertical divider. Within the right sign field are repeated horizontal band-like signs and other small hieroglyphic marks that resemble typical Amarna-era Aten epithets/solar-disc phrases. On the left sign field are additional vertical and wedge-like strokes consistent with hieroglyphic text, though the full sequence is not fully legible at this resolution. No other inscriptions (Greek/Coptic/Arabic) are visible. No clearly depicted human figures or deities are shown aside from the textual reference implied by the inscription.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom, Amarna Period (c. 1353–1336 BCE) good
Deities Aten (name implied by catalogue; specific solar-disc text not fully readable)
Materials indurated limestone
Signs Cartouche-like rectangular sign field containing Aten-related epithets (solar-disk/hieroglyphic formula) ×2
Visible text "Incised hieroglyphs within cartouche-like sign fields; exact excerpt not fully legible in the provided image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Incised hieroglyphs within cartouche-like sign fields; exact excerpt not fully legible in the provided image.

Connections

Found at Amarna (Akhetaten)
Deities Aten
Materials Indurated Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116273021 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 21.9.496 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 549839 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.