Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

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Description

Ivory

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 simple cylindrical artifact with engraved lines near one end.

The artifact appears to be a cylindrical object made from a white material, possibly bone or ivory. It is plain and undecorated except for a series of engraved lines near one end. The surface is smooth, indicating it may have been polished. This could have been a functional item such as a tool or part of a larger object.

unclear unknown excellent
Materials bone or ivory

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Bone Or Ivory

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116280976 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 15.3.180 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546610 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.