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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · statue
Wall Fragment Inscribed with the Names of Aton
Description
<p>This wall fragment with heiroglyphics is a forgery. It displays Amenophis IV/Akhenaten (1351-1334 BCE) cartouches and titles.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.126' rel='external'>Wall Fragment Inscribed with the Names of Aton</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>
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.
Black-ink-like incised hieroglyphs on a rectangular limestone wall fragment, arranged in two cartouches/oval name-bands separated by a central band and flanked by additional signs.
The artifact is a thick, rectangular limestone fragment with chipped edges. The surface is covered by incised hieroglyphic signs in darkened lines, forming two prominent oval/rounded cartouche-like bands (upper and lower) that contain multiple stacked signs. Additional hieroglyphs appear to the left and right of these bands, including feather-like or leaf/wing-like motifs and other horizontal and vertical stroke signs. No readable Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. Aton-specific royal-theology signs are not unequivocally identifiable from this image alone; the catalogue attribution to “names of Aton” cannot be fully confirmed, though the presence of cartouche-like royal/hieroglyphic name bands is consistent with an inscribed theophoric text.
hieroglyphic only
18th Dynasty, Amarna Period (reign of Akhenaten) — possible, but unclear from the photo
fragmentary
Deities
Aton (as per catalogue title; not clearly readable in image)
Materials
limestone (light gray)dark incised pigment/ink traces along grooves
Signs
incised hieroglyphic signs within two oval/cartouche-like bands (exact signs unclear) ×20
feather/wing-like motif to left (exact sign unclear)
vertical stroke/menat-like line of signs and horizontal bar elements (exact signs unclear) ×5
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
English description
[Label] Old label: Upper Egypt
Cross-references (2)
- Walters-AccNum 22.126 tier-2
- Walters-id 10693 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Walters Art Museum (Egyptian).
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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