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| Title | pressure-flaked flint knife blade | |
| Collection | Artworld: Oriental Museum | |
| Date | 3500 - 3100 BCE | |
| Description | Light brown pressure-flaked flint knife blade. One face of the knife blade is heavily worked and the underside is completely smooth except for being worked only along the edge to form a sharp, finely denticulated convex knife edge. | |
| Cultural Context | Egyptian | |
| Id Number Former Accession | Mac G1141 | |
| Location Creation Site | Misr | |
| Location Current Repository | The Oriental Museum | |
| Subject | implements and utensils, domestic equipment and utensils, knife, technology, tool | |
| Measurements | 6.1 x 14.3 x 0.8 cm | |
| Rights | Oriental Museum, University of Durham, Durham, 2002. All Rights reserved | |
| Rights Owner | OM | |
| Style Period | Prehistoric Period, Chalcolithic Period, Naqada II | |
| Work Type | knife | |
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