Stone tool: flint knife
Fine-grained dark-colored light tan flint knife; bifacial retouch, cortex on one side; good condition, handle broken. [07-1-65]
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.775
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.775; 11.775
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Tools & Equipment-Knives, Blades, Scrapers
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Stone tool: flint knife
- Medium
- Flint
- Dimensions
- Overall: 17.3 x 1 cm (6 13/16 x 3/8 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Pyramid Temple ([MPT] GMT / room C = magazine 18 / 2 or 3)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 18, pl. 18d.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 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)
- Remarks
- Registration number obtained from publication; no registration records available for 1907.