Tie or streamer ribbing
Description
New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353–1336 B.C. Red quartzite. H. 7.9 × W. 5 × D. 5.4 cm (3 1/8 × 1 15/16 × 2 1/8 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.
The image shows a roughly shaped, reddish stone fragment with no clearly defined carvings or inscriptions visible.
A single stone piece is photographed against a light background. The surface is irregular and appears to be a coarse-grained, reddish material consistent with a worked or broken quartzite fragment. No clear drill holes, edges, decorative ribbing, or attachment points are visible at this resolution; the object reads as a plain fragment rather than a clearly formed tie/streamer component. No hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible, and there are no identifiable cartouches or royal names. No identifiable deities are depicted.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116275586 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 57.180.175 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 561689 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.