tool/implement

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Object Type
Museum number: EA67638
Description: Flint tool/implement.
Cultures/periods
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Amarna, el-, TA:20-21/40 Main City, house 0.48.17 One of eleven flint tools (including British Museum EA 67632-3, 67635-6) found in a medium-sized house, with painted panels in its central room. Other finds included a faience ring-bezel, bone tools, a wooden comb, a bronze model of an ox leg and a limestone figure of a monkey. The house experienced at least two occupation phases within the Amarna period, with two distinct brick flooring levels found in one space
Materials
Dimensions: Length: 4.30 centimetres (max); Width: 2.80 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: Peet and Woolley, City of Akhenaten I (1923): 28-9 [description of house and finds]. Large groups of flint blades and tools have been recovered from other New Kingdom settlement sites. See, for example, Giddy, Survey of Memphis II (1999: 226-43).
Location: On display (G61/dc6/sB)
Condition: good
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1921
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA67638
Registration number: 1921,1007.7

Free entry