Accession No
1927.1518 AA-CE
Description
Flint - A: Hollow grinders
B: Knives with reentrant handles
C: Knives without reentrant handles
Place
Africa; North Africa; Egypt; Fayum; Qasr el-Sagha
Period
Old Kingdom Middle Kingdom
Source
Caton Thompson, Gertrude (Miss); British School of Archaeology in Egypt
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1927.1518 AA-CE; MAA: 1927.1518; BF: 864; CI: 867
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone; Flint
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (CMS Context)
Suffixes uncertain
AA-AE: " 5 of nearly 200 found on an Old Kingdom workshop site on the Hierakonpolis, temple area at Qasr el-Sagha. Fragments of hollowed alabaster and limestone lay amongst them. Similar flints were obtained at the Sakkara Pyramid." The cultural unit ' Old Kingdom' refers to AA-BG only and ' Middle Kingdom' to CH-CI only
Found:
AA-AE, BG-CH: Qasr el-Sagha
BF: Near ' N'
CI: Dime, West basin, West shoreline, about 190-7'
Excavated by Thompson.Miss.Gertrude.Caton-
Event Date 24/5/1991
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
A: Hollow grinders
B: Knives with reentrant handles
C: Knives without reentrant handles
Event Date 24/5/1991
Author: maa
FM:36546
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