Object: Chisel
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,D. Sams, Esq., late of Luxor, Egypt,Sotheby's 23/v/21, Lot 45
Site: Egypt,Thebes
Discovery context: auction
Country: Egypt
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 72.5
Edge (mm): 14.5
Thickness (mm): about 1 1/2 at thickets part + tapering to an edge
Weight (g): 6.5
Surface: surface is covered with a slight encrustment of emerald + a lighter green, with rust colour showing beneath
Associations: 15 chisels + three scrapers - found wrapped together in a Tomb at Thebes
Remarks: This is one of 9 - all practically the same shape and size.