Digital Giza | Stone tool: flint

White flint blade.

ID

MFAB_47.1783
Department

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Classification

Tools & Equipment-Knives, Blades, Scrapers
Findspot

Pit G 2100 F (?) (G 2500/7)
Material

Flint
Dimensions

Overall: 9.8 x 0.7 cm (3 7/8 x 1/4 in.)
Credit Line

Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Object Ownership Information

MFA
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.
Remarks

See handwritten tomb cards by A.M. Lythgoe, where the tomb of Merib, G 2100-I (= Lepsius 24) is numbered G 2500. This number was later abandoned. Tomb cards (in order): EG014935, EG014934, EG014936, EG014937, EG014938. Based on Lythgoe's description, this flint is probably from shaft F of G 2100 (probably tomb of Sedit). Objects labeled by Lythgoe as G 2500/7 are called "alabaster fragments" and were found at depth of 3.5 m, in NE corner of shaft. Apparently flints not recorded on the tomb cards were also labeled G 2500/7.

Stone tool: flint