Tool (?)
Description
Lower Paleolithic Period, ca. 300,000–90,000 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 flint lithic piece with a concave working edge, shown in close-up against a light background.
The image shows one broken, irregularly shaped lithic object resembling a tool core or worked flake. The visible surface is light brown to yellowish with patches of darker patination. A prominent concave section along one side suggests deliberate shaping or a working edge; the opposite side tapers and is damaged, indicating a fragment. No clear hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic inscriptions are visible, and no cartouches or royal names appear. The catalogued material as flint is consistent with the appearance of a knappable stone with cortex/patina. The stated Lower Paleolithic date and findspot Deir el-Bahri are not directly verifiable from the image alone.
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.