Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum
Information
Flint sickle blade, flake with one edge strongly serrated. From Naqada South Town.
Excavated by Professor Petrie at Naqada during the winter of 1894-5 for the Egyptian Research Account; Ex Norwich Castle Museum, inv. 54.04 (donated by Flaxman Spurrell, 1904).
See 'The Flint Implements of Naqada' by F. C. J. Spurrell in Petrie and Quibell, 'Naqada and Ballas' (London, 1896) pp. 55-59.
Specifications
- Accession number
- 56.20.38
- Collection type
- Tools
- Culture
- Predynastic Period
- Place made
- Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt: Naqada
- Date made
- 5500 BC - 3100 BC
- Collector
- Egyptian Research Account
- Place collected
- Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt: Naqada
- Date collected
- 1895
- Materials
- Flint
- Measurements
- Overall: 6 mm x 23 mm x 64 mm
- Credit line
- Purchased from the collections of Norwich Castle Museum
- Legal status
- Permanent collection
- Provenance
- Location
- Item not currently on display
- Publications
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