Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Cosmetic spoon
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 long, slender pipe made from wood with an animal head decoration at the top.
The artifact is a finely crafted pipe made from light-colored wood. It features an intricately carved animal head at the top, possibly representing a falcon or another avian figure. The pipe's design is elongated and simplistic, typical of an artistic style that emphasizes clean lines and functional design. This object may have served a ceremonial or practical function.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116282222 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 51.172.5 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546050 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.