Bifacial Knife
Description
Predynastic Period, ca. 3850–2960 B.C. Flint. Said to be from: Nag el-Deir, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Credit: Rogers Fund, 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.
Photograph of a bifacially worked stone tool with a long, flat body and a straight cutting edge along both faces.
The image shows a single elongated implement photographed in profile against a light background. The object is worked on both sides (bifacial) with fine flaking/retouch, producing a sharper edge and a relatively broad, flat central area. No hieroglyphs, cartouches, or any painted decoration are visible. No royal name panels or inscriptions appear on the surfaces. The material appears to be dark gray to black stone consistent with a flint/stone blade; the edges show retouched fracture and trimming. The overall form matches a prehistoric Predynastic bifacial lithic tool rather than an inscribed monument.
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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.
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