Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Adze blade
Description
Bronze or 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.
An ancient Egyptian tool or weapon with a broad blade and narrow handle.
The artifact is a tool or weapon made of bronze, with a broad, flat blade that narrows into a rudimentary handle. The metal shows signs of corrosion and patina, indicating its age. The overall form suggests it may have been used for cutting or digging.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243724 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.454 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545559 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.