AN EGYPTIAN FLINT SERRATED KNIFE BLADE
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALAN M. MAY
AN EGYPTIAN FLINT SERRATED KNIFE BLADE

NAQADA III, CIRCA 3300-3100 B.C.

細節
AN EGYPTIAN FLINT SERRATED KNIFE BLADE
Naqada III, Circa 3300-3100 B.C.
The elongated blade smoothly polished on one face, ripple-flaked on the other, with a razor-sharp cutting edge
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) long
來源
with Galerie Nefer, Zürich, 1996.

拍品專文

For similar flint knives, including one with an elaborately worked ivory handle, see nos. 165-168 in Needler, Predynastic and Archaic Egypt in The Brooklyn Museum.