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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.
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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.