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Biface, commonly referred to as a hand ax Lower Paleolithic PeriodDeir el-Bahri

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 06.322.17. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 06.322.17
Find spot: Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Lower Paleolithic Period
Date: ca. 300,000–100,000 B.C.
Date range: 300 BCE – 300 BCE
Materials: ['flint']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Lower Paleolithic Period, ca. 300,000–100,000 B.C. Flint. No measurement. From: Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Credit: Gift of C.T. Currelly, 1906.

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Found at Deir el-Bahri

Materials Flint

Cross-references (4)

Wikidata-Q Q116419280 tier-1
Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
Inventory-Number 06.322.17 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
MET-Object 552162 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)

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