Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Scribal Palette
Description
Wood, ivory, ink
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 block with grooves accompanied by thin rods, likely a tool or instrument part.
The image depicts an elongated rectangular wooden block with grooves or slots carved into its surface. Alongside the block are several slender, elongated wooden rods. The style is simplistic, indicative of functional craftsmanship. Notable features include the precision of the grooves suggesting it may have held or aligned components.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280513 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.298 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546931 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.