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.
An ancient Egyptian ivory tusk artifact with carved designs.
The artifact is a carved piece of ivory, shaped from a tusk, displaying incision patterns along its length. It shows signs of age, with visible wear and discoloration. The carvings suggest artistic or symbolic intent, typical of ancient Egyptian decorative work, possibly for ceremonial or ornamental use.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
ivory
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116282283 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 48.105.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546006 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.