Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Long-bladed axe
Description
Copper, 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.
An ancient Egyptian scribe's palette made of wood.
The artifact is a scribe's palette, prominently composed of wood. It features multiple wells for holding pigments, likely used for writing hieroglyphs or texts. The elongated, rectangular form is typical of Egyptian craftsmanship, intended to be convenient for use in writing. The palette shows skilled woodworking, indicative of tools used in the day-to-day activities of scribes.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Connections
Materials
Wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235425 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 29.2.13 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544280 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.