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 bronze axe head with a wooden handle.
The artifact is a bronze axe head attached to a wooden handle, bound with a fiber or leather binding. The axe head is semicircular, typical of ancient functional tools, and shows signs of age with some oxidization. The handle appears to be simple, with tool marks suggesting handcraftsmanship.
daily life
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
woodbronzefiber
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248083 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 17.9.17 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544290 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.