Arrowhead
Description
Roman Period, 30 B.C.–A.D. 364. Iron. L. 11 × W. 1.8 cm (4 5/16 × 11/16 in.). From: Memphis (Mit Rahina), Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: BSAE excavations. Credit: Gift of The Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1909.
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 bifurcated arrowhead-shaped iron implement shown in profile against a plain background.
The object is a small, leaf-like arrowhead with a pointed tip at the left and a flattened, forked/dual-barbed socket or tang area at the right, forming two prongs. The surface shows mixed dark brown/black and muted greenish tones consistent with corrosion/patina. No decoration, inscriptions, or carved symbols are visible. The image does not show any human figures, deities, royal iconography, or cartouches.
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- 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.