Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Throw Stick
Description
Wood
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 wooden object with linear grooves.
The image depicts a wooden object, cylindrical in shape, with evenly spaced linear grooves carved along its length. The wear and age-related marks suggest it is an ancient tool or implement. The grooves are consistent and parallel, indicating a systematic carving technique.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280156 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.412 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547025 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.