Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Ax or adze
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 stone tool or artifact with a pointed shape.
The artifact is a pointed stone tool, likely crafted for utilitarian purposes. It shows signs of flaking and shaping, typical of ancient tool-making techniques. The surface displays a series of ridges and marks indicating it was chipped off to form an edge. Its composition suggests it could have been used for cutting or scraping, and it lacks any form of decorative elements.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415066 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.4.30 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547159 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.