Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · architecture
Fragment of the Base of a Broad Knife
Description
Caption: Fragment of the Base of a Broad Knife, ca. 1938–1190 B.C.E.. Bronze, 2 7/8 × 1 5/8 × 1/8 in. (7.3 × 4.1 × 0.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1668E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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 small, ancient Egyptian leaf-shaped artifact.
The artifact is a leaf-shaped piece with a dark patina, suggesting age and oxidation. It lacks visible inscriptions or carvings, and its edges are rough and uneven. The texture appears to be coarse, indicating possible corrosion.
unclear
unknown
poor
Materials
bronze
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1668E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118192 tier-2
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- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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