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 long, narrow, leaf-shaped stone implement with a pointed end, photographed on a light background. A dark handwritten inventory/label number appears on the surface.
The image shows a single small flint tool lying horizontally. The object is brown to dark brown/black with a smooth worn surface and a distinct pointed tip on the left and a more squared/rounded end on the right. The midsection displays faint dark markings that look like handwritten numerals rather than carved hieroglyphs. No clear carved Egyptian hieroglyphic signs, cartouches, or royal titulary are visible. The background is a neutral light/white. There is no visible decorative program or imagery of deities or figures. The object appears intact and does not look fragmentary.
Inscriptions (1)
Visible text (machine reading)
Connections
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.