Sickle Blade
Description
Caption: Sickle Blade, ca. 3500–3100 B.C.E.. Flint, 13/16 x 2 15/16 in. (2 x 7.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 07.447.825. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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 a small, curved stone blade fragment photographed on a white background next to a metric scale ruler. The thin, sickle-like curvature is consistent with a flint sickle blade fragment.
A single lithic object is centered in the frame, oriented horizontally. The piece appears to be a curved/arc-shaped blade with a relatively thin cross-section and a straight-ish edge on one side, consistent with a sickle element made from worked flint. The top portion shows uneven fracture planes, suggesting it is broken and incomplete. A measurement ruler spans the lower half of the image, with black tick marks and numbers; an additional handwritten/printed label strip with a sequence of digits appears above the ruler (too indistinct to reliably transcribe). No carved or incised hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other textual markings are visible on the artifact itself. No deities, royal names, or iconography are present.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 07.447.825 tier-2
- BKM-Object 4233 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- 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.