Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Throw Stick
Description
Ivory (tinted)
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 small artifact shaped like a snake's head.
This artifact is a slender, elongated object, possibly made of wood or similar material, with detailing that resembles a snake's head at one end. The style is simplistic with minimal decoration. Its form suggests it may have been a tool or decorative object.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Connections
Materials
Wood
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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.