Model Adze

55.82.25c

Information

Blade from a model adze. Label stuck to the surface with the number 56. Compare with the group of model tools found in a bag in tomb 116 (now in Cairo Museum) in Garstang, The Burial Customs of Ancient Egypt (London, 1907), fig. 66, p. 77-78; also see Mogens Jorgensen, Tomb Treasures from Ancient Egypt (Copenhagen, 2002), pp. 36-7.