Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Comb
Description
Ivory
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 broken, ancient Egyptian ivory comb with decorative carvings.
The artifact is an intricately carved ivory comb, likely used in daily life. It features parallel lines across the top, with some teeth missing due to age. The design suggests it was both a utilitarian and possibly decorative object. The comb's style and craftsmanship indicate it may have belonged to a person of some status.
daily life
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
ivory
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280143 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.428 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547034 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.
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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.