Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Handle of an ax
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 simple, elongated wooden stick likely used as a tool or staff.
The artifact is a long, slender wooden object with a smooth surface. It is cylindrical in shape and appears to taper slightly at one end. The wood shows no visible inscriptions or decorative carvings. Its function may be utilitarian, perhaps as a tool or support staff.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Connections
Materials
Wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235424 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 29.2.10b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544275 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.