Pounder
Description
Pestle, pounder. Neolithic Period, Buto–Merimda–Maadi, ca. 4500–4000 B.C. Quartz. L: 5.5 cm (2 3/16 in). From: Merimda Beni Salama, Western Delta, Egypt. Excavation: Vienna Academy of Science excavations 1929–30. 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.
Photograph of a roughly rounded, polished stone “pounder”/handstone with a darker ground/working face; no visible inscriptions or iconography are present.
The object is a single, heavy stone implement photographed against a light background. It has a thick, rounded-cylindrical form with worn surfaces. One broader side appears darker and more abraded, suggesting a contact/working face, while the upper sides are lighter gray and pitted with small chips and specks. The surface shows minor nicks and small dark inclusions; edges are smoothed by use. No carved hieroglyphs, cartouches, figures, or other decorative motifs can be clearly identified. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116277274 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.4.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547118 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.