Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Arrowhead
Description
Copper alloy
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.
Bronze arrowhead with visible inscriptions.
The object is a bronze arrowhead with inscribed hieroglyphic symbols. The inscriptions are subtle but discernible along the side of the artifact. The piece is slender and tapers to a point, indicative of its use as a projectile. There is some patina visible, suggesting age.
military
unknown
good
Materials
bronze
Signs
notch-like symbol
curved line symbol
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243727 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.460 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545557 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.