Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Fishtail 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 or stone projectile point shaped like a leaf or arrowhead.
The object is a finely crafted stone tool, likely a flint projectile point with serrated edges and a pointed tip. It has a flat, triangular shape with a slightly concave base. Such tools were commonly used in hunting during various periods of Egyptian prehistory.
unclear
Predynastic
excellent
Materials
flint
Connections
Materials
Flint
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415110 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.2.8 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547191 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.