Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Model ax
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.
A bronze axe head, likely from an ancient Egyptian context.
The image depicts a bronze axe head with a symmetrical, crescent-shaped blade. The surface shows slight corrosion, indicative of age, and there are no visible inscriptions or decorative elements. This type of artifact is typical of utilitarian tools used in various periods of ancient Egyptian history.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
bronze
Connections
Materials
Bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243720 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 99.4.36 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545563 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.