Bifacial knife with handle
Description
Knife, Bifacial Knife. Early Dynastic Period, ca. 3100–2649 B.C. Flint. From: Egypt. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1919.
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.
The image shows a single pointed, bifacial stone implement with a narrow tang-like form that would fit a handle, photographed against a plain background.
A dark gray/black lithic object is shown in profile, with a long, pointed working end and a narrower midsection that tapers toward the bottom. The faces appear chipped/knapped with multiple flake scars, consistent with a flint tool. The implement looks bifacial (both sides shaped into cutting edges), but the specific edge geometry and any attached handle components are not clearly visible in the photograph. No hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible; the surface decoration appears purely knapped rather than inscribed.
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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.
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