Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Spatula
Description
Slate
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 elongated, smooth stone tool, likely used for grinding or polishing.
This artifact is a flat, oval-shaped stone with a smooth surface, indicative of use in grinding or polishing activities. Its shape and size suggest it was handheld, possibly used in daily life for processing grains or smoothing surfaces. The tool has a gray color and appears uniformly worn.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281195 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 32.1.140 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546490 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.