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

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Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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 pointed artifact with a simple linear shape.

The artifact appears to be a pointed, elongated object, possibly a tool or stylus. It is uniform in color, suggesting it is made from a single material, likely bone or wood. The surface is smooth, and there are no visible inscriptions or decorations.

unclear unknown good
Materials bone

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Bone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116280865 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 15.3.134 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546685 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.