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Hollow-Base Projectile Point Predynastic, BadarianMatmar

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 32.2.24. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 32.2.24
Find spot: Matmar, Northern Upper Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Predynastic, Badarian
Date: ca. 4000–3800 B.C.
Date range: 4000 BCE – 3800 BCE
Materials: ['flint']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Hollow-Base Projectile Point (32.2.24). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/58851

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Predynastic, Badarian, ca. 4000–3800 B.C. Flint. L. 4.8 × W. 2.7 × Th. 0.5 cm, Wt. 4.5g (1 7/8 × 1 1/16 × 3/16 in., 0.159oz.). From: Tomb 3083, Matmar, Northern Upper Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: BSAE/Brunton excavations, 1931. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1932.

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