This knife fragment is made of fine-grained flint of mottled dark gray-brown and light brown coloration. It has two convex edges, both of which are very finely serrated. Its original shape was likely lenticular. Three separate fragments of the knife originally received separate numbers: a body...
Provenance
From Mesaid (Mesa'eed) tomb 26, no. 4b [M/26/4b]. 1910: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession Date: March 2, 1911)
Credit Line
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Egyptian, Predynastic Period, Naqada, I–III, 3850–2960 B.C.
Findspot
Mesaid, Egypt
Accession Number
11.264
Medium or Technique
Flint