Natural flint with two holes. [DCF Court Team 16/1/2003]

Collection type: Object
Description: Natural flint with two holes. [DCF Court Team 16/1/2003]
Geographical reference: Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt; El Amrah
Person: Field collector David Randall MacIver; PRM source Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian Predynastic
Date collected: By 1901
Acquisition information: Donated: 1901
Materials and processes: Material Flint Stone
Dimensions: Length: max 64 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1901.29.4 Other numbers: b9
Research and responses: p 25 of excavation report (1902) " b 9. Grave of class 4a. Depth of pit 8ft., length 5ft. 6in., width to recess 3ft.9in. Oval clay coffin 32 in. x 21 in. and 15 in. high and 1/2 in. thick. Body Female. Beside the coffin at head end were two pots of type L 33g (pl. xiii)." [AS 11/05/2009]
The Pitt Rivers Museum received a number of flint implements from Randall MacIver's work at el Amrah because the Pitt Rivers Museum's curator, Henry Balfour, was asked to comment on them. His account of 'the entire series' was published on pages 44-46 of the 1902 excavation report. [AS 15/06/2012]
Associated publications: Randall MacIver, D. and Mace, A. (1902) El Amrah and Abydos 1899-1901. London: Egypt Exploration Fund. [AS 07/06/2012]

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