Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Curved 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.
An ancient Egyptian flint knife with a curved blade.
The image depicts a curved flint blade, typical of ceremonial knives from ancient Egypt. The blade is smooth, with sharp edges, and is crafted from a reddish-brown stone, likely flint. This type of object is often associated with ritual or ceremonial use, given its finely worked nature and the material used.
unclear
Predynastic
excellent
Materials
flint
Connections
Materials
Flint
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415104 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.49.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547187 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.