Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Ladle
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.
A long-handled ladle or spoon, possibly used in ceremonial contexts.
The artifact depicted is a long-handled utensil, likely a ladle, with a rounded, bowl-like receptacle at one end and a hooked handle at the other. The composition suggests its use in either daily life for serving or in ritualistic contexts. The style is simplistic yet functional, possibly made of bronze.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
bronze
Connections
Materials
Bronze
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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.