Blunt Pile and Shaft of a Javelin
Object type: Spear, javelin, blunt pile
Department: Egyptian Art
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
Date: ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
Medium: Bronze or copper alloy, wood, reed
Dimensions: pile L. 12.5 cm (4 15/16 in)
reed shaft L. 75 cm (29 1/2 in)
Geography: From    Egypt Upper Egypt, Thebes Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Locale: Tomb of Senenmut (TT 71), below
Locus: deposit of hunting weapons
Excavation: MMA excavations, 1935–36
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1936
Accession year: 1936