Knife

56.20.60

Information

Flint knife with a concave edge. Thick blunt back, transverse flaked butt. Pale lavender grey opaque flint. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Surface dirt. 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.