Stone tool: flint
Dark-colored flint scraper; good condition.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.788
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.788; 11.788
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Tools & Equipment-Knives, Blades, Scrapers
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Stone tool: flint
- Medium
- Flint
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 9 x 5.5 x 1.4 cm (3 9/16 x 2 3/16 x 9/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 329)
- Bibliography
- Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002, p. 71, cat. 19b.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1910: Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1911: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession date: March 2, 1911)