Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Model adze
Description
Copper, wood, animal hide
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 wrapped ancient Egyptian writing instrument composed of sticks and leather.
The artifact consists of two wooden sticks, bound together with strips of leather. It appears to be an ancient writing tool, possibly a stylus or part of a larger scribal kit. The materials used are typical of Egyptian craftsmanship aimed at practicality, and the composition suggests use in daily life or scribal activities.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
woodleather
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281779 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 17.9.21 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546209 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.
- 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.