Arrow
Description
Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 11, ca. 2030–1640 B.C. Wood, feather. From: Tomb MMA 106, Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1926–27. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1927.
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 several small, straight wooden objects laid horizontally on a light background, resembling arrow shafts of different lengths, with one shorter, thicker fragment near the center.
Compositionally, four wooden pieces are visible: two long arrow-like shafts at the top and upper middle, a third shorter shaft below them, and a very small dark-tipped fragment near the center-lower area. Surfaces show age-related wear and darkened ends consistent with deterioration or preserved tips. No clearly preserved feather segments are visible in this view; any feathering is not distinguishable from the background. The objects have no readable inscriptions, cartouches, or hieroglyphic decoration, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present. No deity iconography is visible.
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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.
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