Knife

1973.2.262

Information

Flint knife, curved profile, roughly worked (?unfinished). CONDITION NOTE (1998): Surface dirt. Catalogue of the MacGregor Collection of Egyptian Antiquities (Sotheby’s 26 June – 3 July 1922) Lot 1140: Two large Knives or Scrapers, one 7 in by 4 1/8in, the other 6 3/4in by 3 1/8in ; also a sickle-shaped Knife, 6 3/4in long, fine; a Lance-head, with roughly serrated edge, 7 1/2in long; and a Knife, in reddish flint, with curved blade boldly carved, 6 1/2in long by 2 in wide; found at Kom-el-Ahmar (Tomb 307)