Stone tool: flint knife fragment
Fragment (part of blade) of brown flint knife; bifacially retouched.
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- ID
- MFAB_47.1953
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Tools & Equipment-Knives, Blades, Scrapers
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- Findspot
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT)
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- Material
- Flint
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- Dimensions
- Other: 12 x 3.7 x 0.5 cm (4 3/4 x 1 7/16 x 3/16 in.)
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA
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- Period
- Old Kingdom
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- 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; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
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- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex