Pounder
Description
Pestle, pounder. Neolithic Period, Buto–Merimda–Maadi, ca. 4500–4000 B.C. Quartz. From: Merimda Beni Salama, Western Delta, Egypt. Excavation: Vienna Academy of Science excavations, 1927–29. Credit: Gift of Albert Rothbart, 1933.
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, roughly oval stone tool/implement shown against a plain light background, with a mottled brown surface and several worn pits/striations.
The object is a compact, irregularly rounded stone piece photographed from a single angle. Its surface appears brown-to-amber with darker speckling and patches; numerous small grooves, pitted areas, and shallow linear marks suggest use-wear or natural weathering. No clearly carved decorative motifs, recessed panels, or legible inscriptions are visible on the photo. The edges are blunt and worn rather than sharply worked, consistent with a utilitarian tool such as a pounding/striking implement. No evidence of painted decoration or attached hafting is visible in this image.
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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.