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Model mace

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Description

Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 1981–1802 B.C. Wood, paint. l. 47 cm (18 1/2 in.). From: Burial of Seni, Meir, Middle Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: Khashaba excavations, 1910–11. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1911.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

The image shows three wooden club-like objects displayed upright on a neutral background, including one with a rounded head and two with flared/knobbed terminals.

Three similar wooden objects are photographed against a plain light background. The left object is a short staff with a spherical knob at the top and a tapered handle; its surface appears light brown with some pale/paint-like wear. The middle object is taller and has a long shaft ending in a wider, bell-shaped wooden head; the upper portion shows slightly darker/painted accents. The right object is also a tall staff with a long shaft and a smaller rounded/loop-like terminal near the top; the paint or surface treatment appears minimal and worn. No inscriptions or hieroglyphs are visible on the photo. There are no clear royal name cartouches, deities, or identifiable iconographic motifs beyond the general form consistent with a club/mace model type.

decorative Middle Kingdom (per museum catalogue; photo alone cannot confirm period) good
Materials woodpaint (faint/worn)

Connections

Found at Meir
Materials Wood

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281652 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 11.150.20c tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546282 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.