Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Scraper

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Neolithic Period, ca. 6900–3900 B.C. Flint. From: along the road between the Fayum and the Giza pyramids, Fayum, Egypt. Credit: Gift of Herbert E. Winlock, 1926.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Image shows a single small, pointed, teardrop-shaped lithic tool fragment with a sharp edge, photographed against a plain light background.

The object appears to be a flint/chert-like stone piece with an irregular triangular/teardrop outline. One end is more pointed, and there is a darker, chipped area along one margin suggesting a working edge typical of a lithic scraper. The surface shows knapping/flake scars and weathering; no clear casting, carving, or composite construction is visible. There are no readable hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other inscriptions. No deities or royal names are present.

daily life Neolithic Period (consistent with catalogue) fragmentary
Materials flint

Connections

Materials Flint

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116419199 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.10.14 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 551983 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.