Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · tool
Bifacial Tool Paleolithic to NeolithicBeledeh District
Description
Paleolithic to Neolithic, ca. 90,000–5,000 B.C. Flint. l. 11.1 x w. 4.6 x th. 1.7 cm (4 3/8 x 1 13/16 x 11/16 in.). From: W and NW of Christian necropolis, surface find, Beledeh District, Western Desert; Kharga Oasis, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1908–10. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1925.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
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.