Levallois Core
Description
Core, Levallois. Middle Paleolithic Period, ca. 240,000–40,000 B.C. Flint. From: Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Credit: Gift of C. T. Currelly, 1906.
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.
Photograph of a single chipped stone core with a conchoidal fractured surface, shown laid flat on a light background.
The image shows one large, roughly oval/teardrop-shaped stone artifact with a dark brown outer edge and a lighter brown central face. The surfaces exhibit multiple flake scars and a few sharp ridges consistent with a worked lithic core; the top portion has a broad, flat area and surrounding steep fracture faces. No carving, relief, or engraved markings are visible beyond tool-related flake scars. A red handwritten/printed number appears near the lower right of the artifact ("08322-59" or similar), but no hieroglyphic/Greek/Coptic/Arabic script is present. No cartouches, royal names, or deities are identifiable. The material appears consistent with flint or other fine siliceous stone.
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.