Ax or adze
Description
Ax, adze. Neolithic Period, Buto–Merimda–Maadi, ca. 4500–4000 B.C. Flint. L: 5.8 cm (2 5/16 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 small, brown, stone tool fragment with a roughly triangular profile and a worn working edge.
The image shows a single lithic object photographed against a plain light background. The piece has an irregular, tapered form with a pointed top and a wider base, and it appears heavily worn or partially broken. No clear chipping pattern for a blade or polished cutting edge is distinctly visible from this angle, though the lower portion suggests possible tool-edge wear consistent with a prehistoric implement. There are no visible carvings, inscriptions, or pigment. No iconographic figures, deities, or royal cartouches are present.
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.