Small Knife
Description
Caption: Small Knife, 305–30 B.C.E.. Bronze, 1/2 × 1/16 × 4 5/8 in. (1.3 cm, 2mm, 11.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.452E.
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 small, narrow metal blade with a pointed tip, photographed against a plain gray background.
The image shows a single elongated, leaf-shaped knife blade oriented vertically. The tip is pointed and the base shows a broader tang-like section, though the handle is not visible. The surface appears dark greenish-brown with areas of corrosion/patina consistent with aged metal. No engraved scenes, inscriptions, or carved symbols are clearly visible on the blade in this photograph. No cartouches, royal names, or deity iconography can be confirmed from the provided view.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.452E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117101 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- 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.