Arrow Shaft
Description
Caption: Arrow Shaft, ca. 1075–656 B.C.E.. Wood, iron, Diam. 7/16 x 6 15/16 in. (1.1 x 17.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1994E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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 single wooden arrow shaft with an iron point is shown horizontally against a gray background.
The image depicts a straight arrow with a tapered tip on the right. The shaft is primarily reddish-brown wood, with a darker banding/decoration near the middle and small dark markings along the length. The arrowhead appears to be an iron head with a corroded, dark surface, attached at the tip. No feathers are visible, and no inscriptions or pictorial decoration are apparent. No carved or painted hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other identifiable text are present in the visible area.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1994E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118494 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.