Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Dagger
Description
Bronze or copper alloy, ivory, silver
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 dagger with a distinct handle and blade.
The artifact is a dagger featuring a broad, curved handle with a central section that may have once held inlays. The blade is relatively wide at the base, tapering to a sharp point, typical of early metalworking with visible ridges suggesting functional use.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
bronze
Connections
Materials
Bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248108 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 40.2.7 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544281 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.
- 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.