Razor Knife

56.20.509

Information

Bronze razor knife with flat slender shaft and asymetrical head shaped to form an outward curving cutting edge. This razor is a type that was in use during the early Eighteenth Dynasty. Probably collected in Upper Egypt, near Thebes. Old label said "Razor. T[ime] of Thothmes III". CONDITION NOTE (1998): Corroded at edge, scratched.