Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Magic wand
Description
Ivory: Hippopotamus
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 boomerang with incised hunting scenes and animal depictions.
This artifact is a carved and incised boomerang from ancient Egypt, featuring detailed depictions of hunting scenes. The composition includes hunters with bows and arrows, animals such as cattle, and possibly a bird in flight. The figures are rendered in a simplistic yet dynamic style, consistent with representations from the Middle Kingdom period. The material appears to be wood or a similar lightweight substance, possibly designed to be both functional and ornamental.
daily life
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116726729 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.197 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544243 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.