Fish Hook
Description
Object Label: Tools Egyptian workers, including artisans, farmers, and fishermen, required a wide variety of specialized tools. Woodworkers employed axes that had copper or bronze blades lashed to wooden handles with leather. Carpenters produced smooth surfaces with copper chisels, often with serrated edges. Tanners used broad, flat knives to cut strips of leather for sandals, harnesses, and whips, which they then pierced with metal awls. Field hands cut grain with curved sickles fitted with small flint blades. Fishermen relied on metal hooks with tiny barbs, much like their modern-day equivalents. Officials used siphons to inspect the liquid contents of vessels without breaking through the protective mud seals. Caption: Fish Hook, ca. 1539–1292 B.C.E.. Bronze, 9/16 x 3/4 in. (1.4 x 1.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.287E.
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.
The image shows a small group of metal artifacts displayed against a beige background, including a clearly visible hook-like piece on the left and two long, rod-like pieces on the right.
A museum-style photograph presents multiple small metal implements. On the left, there is a curved hook with a narrow shank ending in a loop/eye; the piece appears dark, consistent with a metal object. In the center, a longer rod-like element with a greenish band near its middle is shown upright; the green coloration may be surface corrosion/patina. On the right, another long, rod-like piece is visible, also dark and segmented, with a rounded attachment near the top and a tapered/rounded end. No human figures, animals, deities, or cartouches are visible. The overall scene appears to be photographic documentation of small metal artifacts rather than an inscription field.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.287E tier-2
- BKM-Object 4011 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- 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.