Stone tool: flint
Triangular-shaped flint scraper; chocolate-colored and black, crude work; good condition.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.787
- Alternate IDs
- 11.787; MFAB_11.787
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Tools & Equipment-Knives, Blades, Scrapers
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Stone tool: flint
- Medium
- Flint
- Dimensions
- Other: 5.9 x 5.5 cm (2 5/16 x 2 3/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 38 sub-1)
- 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)