Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 17202 [A]: Wooden sickle containing 5(?) flint sickle-blades'
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1921.593 [A-B] annotated in later hand to: '5 flint teeth'
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Other)
See Z 17202 B for a reproduction of the sickle with teeth.
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Flints removed from handle by Charles B.M. McBurney for metallizing on unknown date.
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Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
See correspondence for year 1921 in Museum's Documentary Archives letter dated 15.9.21 and list of "Antiquities from British School".
Event Date 1921
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Granaries. Excavated by Guy Brunton and Reginald Engelbach in 1921
Event Date 1921
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1921.593 [A-B]: 'Wooden sickle with flint teeth'
Event Date 1921
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Brunton, Guy and Engelbach, Reginald. (1927). Gurob. London: University College.
Event Date 1927
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Record for 1921.593 B: 'Five serrated flints, previously inset into wood sickle (1921.593 A).'
Event Date 30/5/1991
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
The 1921 catalogue card for the wooden sickle with flint teeth does not specify the number of teeth, nor in the 1921 list held in the archive, or in Flinders Petrie's unpublished notebook in the Petrie Museum. A later hand annotated the catalogue card to read '5 flint teeth'. The uncertainty is also apparent on the catalogue card for Z 17202, where the sickle is described as containing '5(?) flint sickle blades'. Only 3 blades have been seen, all 'metalized', marked with the idno 1921.593. It is possible that two more are still missing, but it is also feasible that the further two are actually 1921.676 A-B, two sickle blades one of which is 'metalized', perhaps at the same time. The decision has been taken to update the record to reflect the number of blades securely identified as part of 1921.593.
Event Date 20/4/2023
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Three serrated flints, previously inset into wood sickle (1921.593 A). One broken, but fragment present; all 'metalized'.
Event Date 20/4/2023
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
On Thursday 20th and Friday 21st of April 2023, Claudia Venier studied a collection of material from Ghrub. She noted that in Petrie's Notebook 34a, this object is mentioned.
Event Date 20/4/2023
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson