- Museum number
- EA35536
- Description
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Ivory arrowhead of circular section: tapering at one end to the point and at the other to a short circular tang for fixing to the shaft. The tip has been stained with red ochre.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 0.50 centimetres (max)
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Length: 6.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For similar objects, see W. M. F. Petrie, 'Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties' II, pls.VIIA, 7; XXXII, 37: XXXVII, 15-17; XXXVIII. 5-7; XL, 12-13; XLI, 38-41; XLII, 67; XLIII, 5-8; xlw, 4-6; W. M. F. Petrie, 'Tombs of the courtiers and Oxyrhynkos' (London, 1925), pl. II, 7; W. M. F. Petrie, 'Tarkhan I and Memphis V' (London, 1913), pl.IX, 14-18; T. E. Peet in E. Naville (ed.), ‘The cemeteries of Abydos’ II (London, 1913), 33-4 and pl.X, 3; . J. E. Quibell, ‘Archaic Objects’ (Cairo, 1905), pl.XI, 6; W. B. Emery, ‘Excavations at Saqqara : the tomb of Hemaka' (Cairo, 1938), 46, type 5 and pl.21; W. B. Emery, 'Great tombs of the First Dynasty; excavations at Sakkara' I' (Cairo, 1949), 103, cat. no. 54; W. B. Emery, 'Great tombs of the First Dynasty; excavations at Sakkara' II' (London, 1954), 63-4 and pl.XXVII, 69-71; E. Amélineau, ‘Les Nouvelles Fouilles d’Abydos’ I, (1895-6), pl.XLI; ibid., vol. III (1897-8), pl.III; A. Scharff, ‘Die Altertümer der Vor – und Frühzeit Ägyptens’ I (Berlin, 1929-31), nos. 199-209 and pl.9; W. Wolf, 'Die bewaffnung des altägyptischen Heeres' (Leipzig, 1926) , 17-18 and pl.9, (9-13).
Bibliography:
W. M. F. Petrie, 'Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties' II, 35, pl.XXXIV, 27-49 (examples).
- Location
- On display (G64/dc10)
- Condition
- fair (incomplete)
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA35536
- Registration number
- 1901,1012.36