Tool
Description
Predynastic Period, ca. 3850–2960 B.C. Flint. From: camp II (CII), 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
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 single worked flint stone tool is photographed on a light background.
The image shows one dark-brown to black flint implement lying horizontally. The object has an irregular, elongated blade-like outline with a sharpened edge along one side and a bulbous/rougher working area toward one end. The left end appears more pale where the flint has a lighter cortex or impact scars. No carvings, painted decoration, inscriptions, or identifiable iconography are visible. The piece appears uninscribed and not decorated, consistent with a simple lithic tool rather than a carved stela or figurative object.
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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.