Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Rhomboid-Shaped Bifacial Knife
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 bifacial tool, likely a spearhead or projectile point.
The artifact is a finely crafted bifacially worked tool, showing evidence of skillful flint knapping with symmetrical edges and a tapered point. This piece is likely a spearhead or projectile point used for hunting. The surface shows a series of pressure flaking patterns typical of toolmaking techniques used in prehistoric times.
unclear
Predynastic
excellent
Materials
flint
Connections
Materials
Flint
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415101 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 07.228.106 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547185 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.