Egyptian, An Egyptian bifacial flint knife, Predynastic to Middle Kingdom, circa 3000 - 2000 BC

LŪX | LIGHT: A Photography Exhibition of Ancient Art with Jaron James

11 October 2022 - 3 July 2023

Egyptian

An Egyptian bifacial flint knife, Predynastic to Middle Kingdom, circa 3000 - 2000 BC

Flint

Length: 20.5 cm

£ 2,500.00

Egyptian, An Egyptian bifacial flint knife, Predynastic to Middle Kingdom, circa 3000 - 2000 BC

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The bifacial blade is knapped from a creamy beige-hued flint with darker brown banding, with a straight edge along one edge, the opposite edge curved. A chip to one corner,...

Provenance

Bradley Collection, Worcester, before 1962
English private collection, Gloucester, acquired in 1962, thence by descent

Literature

Such flint blades were a crucial part of agriculture in ancient Egypt. Grain was a staple of the economy, as bread and beer made from grain were consumed daily. They also formed the foundation of eternal sustenance, as funerary offerings. For a similar example from Lisht dated to the Middle Kingdom, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, see acc. no. 34.1.177; see acc. no. 16.2.17 for a predynastic example: W.C. Hayes, Scepter of Egypt I: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978, p. 24, fig. 16.

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