Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Razor Belonging to Hatnefer
Description
Bronze or copper alloy, boxwood
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.
An ancient Egyptian tool with a curved wooden handle and a metal blade.
The artifact is a tool featuring a wide, slightly curved blade affixed to a smooth, arched wooden handle. The metal is likely bronze, given its historical use and patina. The tool appears to be functional, typical of those used in daily life for agricultural or domestic work. The craftsmanship highlights practical use rather than ornamental purpose.
daily life
New Kingdom
good
Materials
woodbronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245315 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 36.3.69 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545127 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.