Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Scribal kniife of the Chief Steward Djehutyhotep
Description
Bronze or copper alloy
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 tool with inscriptions on one side.
This artifact appears to be a bronze or metal tool with hieroglyphic inscriptions on one side. The tool is elongated with a curved shape, possibly resembling a ritual knife or another ceremonial object. The inscriptions are neatly arranged, and the material suggests it was an item of significance.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
good
Materials
bronze
Signs
unknown ×5
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235368 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 48.105.3 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546007 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.