knife
- Museum number
- EA65635
- Description
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Slightly curved tapering bronze knife with a duck-head tang/handle.
- Dimensions
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Length: 22 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See also 1956,1015.1
See also 1956,1015.3
All three are described in Christie's auction catalogue 27 July 1956, lot 72, as 'said to have been found in a tomb at Thebes, Upper Egypt, 1826.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
1989 Jan-Mar, South Florida Science Museum, Imhotep's Egypt: Discovering Ancient Egyptian Technology
1989 Apr-Jun, Miami, Museum of Science, Imhotep's Egypt: Discovering Ancient Egyptian Technology
1989 Jul-Aug, Jacksonville Museum of Science History, Imhotep's Egypt: Discovering Ancient Egyptian Technology
2010 4th Nov-2011 6th March, Round Reading Room BM, Book of the Dead
2012 July - September, Tokyo, Mori museum, The Book of the Dead: Journey Through the Afterlife
2012, October - November, Fukuoka Museum of Art, The Book of the Dead
2013, May - September, Perth, Western Australian Museum, The Book of the Dead
- Condition
- fair (slight corrosion)
- Acquisition date
- 1956
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA65635
- Registration number
- 1956,1015.2
