Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Model chisel
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.
A small wooden-handled implement with a metal blade.
The artifact appears to be a tool or small weapon, featuring a wooden handle and a metal blade. The wooden part is shaped and smoothed, while the metal blade shows signs of age-related wear and patina. The object’s utilitarian design suggests practical use, possibly for cutting or carving.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
woodmetal
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248076 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 17.9.30 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544294 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.