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Whip Handle Inscribed with Cartouche of Amunhotep IV

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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: Whip Handle Inscribed with Cartouche of Amunhotep IV, ca. 1539–1292 B.C.E.. Wood, pigment?, 1 5/8 × 1 3/4 × 12 in. (4.1 × 4.4 × 30.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.952E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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 club with carved hieroglyphic inscriptions.

The wooden artifact appears to be a ceremonial club, featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions along its length. It is carved from a single piece of wood, with a slightly bulbous head and a cylindrical shaft. There are visible wear and age marks, indicating its historical use. The hieroglyphs are carved into the surface, potentially listing titles or depicting a short inscription.

hieroglyphic only unknown good
Materials wood
Signs reed quail chick basket

Connections

Found at Abusir
Materials Wood

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.952E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 4117 tier-2
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  • 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.