Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
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Description
Wood
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, rectangular wooden artifact with a central opening.
The artifact appears to be a wooden bar with a rectangular shape, featuring a cut-out section in the middle. The wood shows signs of age, with some rough edges and chipping visible. It lacks any visible inscriptions or decorative elements.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235427 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 27.3.70 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544271 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.