Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Bifacial Tool
Description
Flint
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 prehistoric flint tool likely used for cutting or scraping.
This artifact is a flint tool with a roughly triangular shape, commonly associated with early human tool-making. The edges have been knapped, creating sharp surfaces suitable for cutting or scraping. The piece features a typical prehistoric flint coloration, ranging from earthy brown to light ochre. Its form is indicative of utilitarian purposes, possibly dating to the Paleolithic period.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
flint
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415065 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.4.29 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547158 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.