Egyptian Flint Knife, Pre-Dynastic Period, c. 5th-4th Millennium B.C.

(Flint Knife)

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Item No.
35.37580
Culture
Egypt, Pre-Dynastic Period, c. 5th-4th Millennium B.C. 
Item Details.
Brown flint single-edged knife with old label ‘Gull's wing blade’. Ancient Egyptian flint knives were used for ritual and mummification tools; some were used as weapons.

Provenance: From the private collection of Sydney Horne, 1920s-1940s.

Literature: Cf. Aufrère, S., Collections des Musées départementaux de Seine-Maritime, Rouen, 1987, pp.188-190, for comparable examples.

Size
11.4 cm L - 4 7/16 inch
Material
Flint 
Condition
Intact 
Categories
Egypt , Weapons
Price.
US$ 2000
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