Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · tool
Bifacial Sickle Insert Neolithic–Predynastic Period
Description
Neolithic–Predynastic Period, ca. 6900–3100 B.C. Flint. L. 6.4 × W. 2.4 × Th. 0.8 cm, Wt. 12.2g (2 1/2 × 15/16 × 5/16 in., 0.43oz.). From: Fayum, Egypt. Excavation: BSAE/Caton-Thompson excavations, 1924–26. Credit: Gift of The British School of Archaeology, 1926.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
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Flint
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.