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Bifacial Knife Predynastic PeriodNag el-Deir

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 26.2.85. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 26.2.85
Find spot: Nag el-Deir, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt
Period: Predynastic Period
Date: ca. 3850–2960 B.C.
Date range: 3850 BCE – 2960 BCE
Materials: ['flint']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Bifacial Knife (26.2.85). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/216770

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Predynastic Period, ca. 3850–2960 B.C. Flint. Said to be from: Nag el-Deir, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1926.

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Materials Flint Worked Stone

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