Pounder
Description
Pestle, pounder. Neolithic Period, Buto–Merimda–Maadi, ca. 4500–4000 B.C. Quartz. L: 5 cm (1 15/16 in.). From: Merimda Beni Salama, Western Delta, Egypt. Excavation: Vienna Academy of Science excavations, 1927–29. Credit: Gift of Albert Rothbart, 1933.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A roughly rounded stone implement with a worn, blunt surface, photographed against a plain background.
The image shows a single, hand-held sized artifact shaped like a rounded boulder or irregular stone “pounder.” The surface is generally light gray with mottling and darker weathering along one edge, suggesting use-wear rather than carved decoration. No clear carved hieroglyphs or other inscriptions are visible, and there are no identifiable cartouches, royal names, or deity iconography. The object appears to be unengraved and mostly featureless besides natural stone texture and minor pitting.
Connections
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116277254 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.4.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547117 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.