Knife
1973.2.261a
Information
Flint knife. A note on the record card "?Abydos Osiris temenos in Abydos I".
Marked in pencil.
CONDITION NOTE (1998): Surface dirt.
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum 17308 (4 items): Flint blade 4¾" long. Lot 1135; Flint blade. 4½" Lot 1142; Flint blade. 8" long. Lot 1139; Flint blade 6" long. Mc1726. Lot 1141.
Catalogue of the MacGregor Collection of Egyptian Antiquities (Sotheby’s 26 June – 3 July 1922) Lot 1141: Four flint Knives, one with carefully serrated edge, ranging from 6in to 5 1/4in long, all found at Abydos; and the upper portions of a much larger specimen, with finely serrated edge, 5 1/2in long by 2 3/8in wide.