Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Model ax
Description
Copper, wood, animal hide
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 sickle with a wooden handle and a metal blade.
This artifact is a sickle featuring a curved metal blade and a wooden handle. The blade is secured to the handle with a wrapping, possibly made of plant material. The overall composition reflects typical agricultural tools used in ancient Egypt. The handle shows wear and age, indicative of genuine antiquity.
agricultural
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
woodmetal
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248084 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 17.9.18 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544289 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.