Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · cosmetic_object
Hair Comb Decorated with Rows of Wild Animals Predynastic, Late Naqada III
Description
Comb, ornamental (teeth missing). Predynastic, Late Naqada III, ca. 3200–3100 B.C. Ivory. h. 5.5 cm (2 3/16 in); w. 3.9 cm (1 9/16 in); th. 0.5 cm (3/16 in). From: Egypt. Subject: Birds, Boars, Elephants, Snakes. Credit: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915.
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.
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Ivory
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- Wikidata-Q Q29385752 tier-1
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