Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Hairpin
Description
Wood
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 wooden ancient Egyptian tool resembling a stylus or pointer.
The artifact is a slender wooden object with a pointed end, possibly used for writing or as a tool. It features a narrow, elongated shape with a slightly wider handle-like end. The presence of a red inscription along the shaft may indicate cataloging or identification.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Visible text
"21156"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281240 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 34.1.173 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546464 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.