Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Part of a loom
Description
Wood
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 pointed wooden tool or implement.
The artifact is a long, narrow wooden tool with a sharpened tip, possibly used for writing or inscribing. Its surface appears smooth with visible aging and minor irregularities. The lack of decoration or inscriptions suggests it may have served a simple, functional purpose.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414006 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 19.3.16 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545496 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.