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Fishtail Knife Abydos
Description
Predynastic, Naqada III-Dynasty 1, ca. 3300–2900 B.C. Obsidian. L. 13.5 × W. 5.1 × Th. 0.8 cm (5 5/16 × 2 × 5/16 in.). Said to be from: Abydos, Northern Upper Egypt. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1924.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Connections
Found at
Abydos
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415121 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 24.2.13 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547201 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- 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.