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.
An ancient Egyptian chisel with a wooden handle and metal blade.
The artifact is a chisel featuring a wooden handle and a metal blade, likely used in carpentry or masonry. The wooden part is wrapped with a binding material, possibly linen or leather, ensuring the metal blade is secured in place. The blade shows signs of use and oxidation, indicative of significant age.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
woodmetal
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281811 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 17.9.25 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546212 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.