Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · other
Slender Double-Edged Knife
Description
Caption: Slender Double-Edged Knife, ca. 1938–1190 B.C.E.. Bronze, 5 1/8 × 9/16 × 1/16 in. (13 × 1.4 × 0.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1669E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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 fragmentary wooden artifact, possibly part of a larger object.
The object appears to be a narrow, elongated wooden fragment with evidence of age-related wear. It shows partial decomposition and patina, with some blue-green discoloration suggesting possible corrosion from a metal component. The artifact’s form is simple, with no visible decorative elements or carvings.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
wood
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1669E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118193 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.