Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Fishtail knife
Description
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.
Bronze arrowhead with triangular shape and serrated edges.
The artifact is a bronze arrowhead featuring a triangular outline with serrated edges, likely used as a weapon or hunting tool. Its surface shows signs of corrosion, typical of aged bronze artifacts. The form is simple yet functional, indicative of utilitarian design.
military
unknown
good
Materials
bronze
Connections
Materials
Bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415012 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 09.182.8 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547113 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.