Flint. Smooth and rounded nodules. Brown in colour. Four irregular rounded shapes fused together. [AB [OPS Move] 10/8/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Flint. Smooth and rounded nodules. Brown in colour. Four irregular rounded shapes fused together. [AB [OPS Move] 10/8/2016]
Geographical reference: Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt; Abydos
Person: Field collector William Matthew Flinders Petrie; PRM source Egypt Exploration Fund
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian Early Dynastic
Date collected: 1902 - 1903
Acquisition information: Donated: 1903
Materials and processes: Material Flint Stone
Dimensions: Width: max 129 mm, Length: max 160 mm, Height: max 65 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1903.22.16
Research and responses: See RDF for a copy of a letter sent by Henry Balfour to the Egypt Exploration Fund thanking them for the donation of objects from Petrie's excavation in 1902-03: "The specimens are of considerable interest to me, & will find suitable positions in the Museum series. I am particularly interested in the ape figures & the natural flints found with them... again with many thanks for the interesting accessions to my series." [AS 18/07/2012]
Associated publications: Photograph of object on p258 of Bussmann, Richard (2010) Die Provinztempel Agyptens von der 0. bis zur II. Dynastie. Teil II: Abbildungen. Brill. [AS 14/06/2010] See pp.26-27 and plate IX of Petrie, W.M.F. 1903. Abydos Part II. London: Egypt Exploration Fund. [AS 15/06/2012]

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