Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Blade Fragment Early Dynastic Period ?Deir el-Ballas
Description
Early Dynastic Period ?, Dynasty 0–2, ca. 3100–2650 B.C. Flint. L. 4 cm (1 9/16 in.); w. 1.9 cm (3/4 in.). Probably from: Deir el-Ballas, Northern Upper Egypt. Credit: Gift of Albert M. Lythgoe, 1917.
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.
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