chisel
- Museum number
- EA66208
- Description
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Flat boat-shaped bare bronze chisel inscribed on one face (probably at a later date) with the name of Userkaf.
- Dimensions
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Length: 20 centimetres
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Width: 3 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
royal
- Curator's comments
- M. Odler, “Adzes in the Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom”, in Karolina Rosińska-Balik, Agnieszka Ochał-Czarnowicz, Marcin Czarnowicz, Joanna Dębowska-Ludwin (eds), Copper and Trade in the South–Eastern Mediterranean. Trade routes of the Near East in Antiquity. BAR International Series 2753 (2015), fig. 8r
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good (some surface encrustation)
- Acquisition date
- 1961
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA66208
- Registration number
- 1961,0211.4
