Irregularly shaped natural flint nodule from a deposit.

Collection type: Object
Description: Irregularly shaped natural flint nodule from a deposit.
Geographical reference: Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt; Abydos El Mahasna
Person: Field collector John Burges Eustace Garstang; PRM source Egyptian Research Account
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian Predynastic
Date collected: By 1901
Acquisition information: Donated: 1901
Materials and processes: Material Chert Stone
Dimensions: Depth: max 26 mm, Length: max 205 mm, Width: max 45 mm, Weight 298 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1901.42.5 Other numbers: S 2
Research and responses: El Mehesna is more commonly spelt El Mahasna; see J. Garstang, 1903, Mahâsna and Bet Khallaf (Egyptian Research Account, London), and also the later publication, E.R. Ayrton & W.L.S. Loat, 1911, Pre-dynastic Cemetery at El Mahasna for more information about this site [RTS 11/3/2005].
Associated publications: J. Garstang, 1903, Mahâsna and Bet Khallaf (Egyptian Research Account, London) [AS 30/10/2009]

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