Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Ritual tool for the "Opening of the Mouth" ceremony
Description
Wood
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A wooden artifact shaped like an ancient Egyptian throw stick.
The artifact is a wooden object resembling a throw stick, used in ancient Egypt both as a weapon and a symbol. It features a curved body with an angled end, crafted from a single piece of wood. The surface appears smooth but natural, indicating traditional woodworking techniques.
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unknown
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247824 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 25.3.43 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544461 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.