Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Magic knife fragment Middle KingdomLisht North
Description
Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12–13, ca. 1981–1640 B.C. Travertine (Egyptian alabaster). L. 3.8 × W. 5.5 × Th. 0.9 cm (1 1/2 × 2 3/16 × 3/8 in.). From: Cemetery, Lisht North, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1920–22. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1915.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Red ink/marker number near base appears to read '15.3.7798' (exact characters partly uncertain); surrounding incised lines resemble hieroglyphic signs but are not confidently transcribable.
Connections
Found at
Lisht
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243142 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.778 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 556921 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.