Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Spearhead
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 bronze dagger with a corroded blade.
The artifact is a dagger composed of bronze, characterized by a broad blade with significant corrosion, indicative of its age. The object lacks detailed decoration, suggesting it might have been used for practical purposes rather than ceremonial. The blade's shape and green patina are typical of bronze deterioration.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243492 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.50 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545714 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.