Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Model adze
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 tool composed of a wooden handle and a metal blade.
The image depicts an ancient tool, likely an axe, featuring a wooden handle bound with leather strips to a metal blade. The composition is simple and functional, with a focus on utility. The wood shows signs of age, and the leather bindings are a notable feature for securing the blade.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
woodmetalleather
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248081 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 17.9.23 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544291 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.