Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Whetstone
Description
Fine-grained quartzite
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 simple, elongated stone artifact with a pointed end.
The image depicts a stone tool, possibly a knife or blade, characterized by its elongated and tapered shape. The texture appears smooth, suggesting it has been polished or worn down over time. The artifact is relatively plain, with no visible inscriptions or decorative elements.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116276583 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.837d tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547608 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.