Pen
Description
Roman Period, 30 B.C.–A.D. 364. Reed. L. 12 cm (4 3/4 in.). From: Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Middle Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: EEF excavations 1896–97. Credit: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897.
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 small, reed-colored pointed implement resembling a pen, photographed against a plain light background.
A single object is centered in the frame: a straight, reed-like stick with a pointed tip at one end and a blunt/rounded end at the other. The surface appears smooth and tapered, with subtle tonal variation along its length. No pigments, inscriptions, carved details, or attached components are visible. There are no readable hieroglyphs or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text in the image.
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.