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 flint tool with a chipped, pointed shape.
The artifact is a flint tool, showcasing a finely worked, bifacially chipped surface typical of Egyptian lithic technology. The tool features a pointed end, with signs of retouch flaking along the edges and surface. The color is a light brown, common in high-quality flint materials.
unclear
Predynastic
good
Materials
flint
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415068 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.4.32 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547161 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.