Blade
56.20.55
Information
Curved blade, steep back, straight cutting edge. Warm purply-brown, semi-translucent. Polished with sand? Marked in pencil K 89 [Kahun 1889]. Excavated by Professor Flinders Petrie at the ancient town of Lahun, which flourished in the 19th and 18th centuries BC, around the pyramid complex of King Senusret II.
CONDITION NOTE 1998: Surface dirt.