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

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Description

Flint

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.

A small, roughly worked stone tool fragment with a beveled cutting edge, shown in three-quarter view.

The image depicts a single utilitarian stone object photographed against a plain light background. The piece is irregularly shaped, with a large flat-ish face and a darker reddish-brown patch on one side. Along one edge there appears to be a sharper, worked margin consistent with a cutting edge. No carved decoration, modeled figures, or clear iconography is visible. Near the upper area there are faint, possibly modern red inventory/markings, but no legible hieroglyphic or alphabetic inscription is apparent. Overall, the object looks like a flint/lithic implement rather than a decorated religious or royal item.

daily life Early Dynastic Period ? (as catalogued); lithic tool with unclear dating from image alone fragmentary
Materials stoneflint (as catalogued)
Signs unclear red/painted inventory marking

Connections

Found at Deir el-Ballas
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