Object: Sculptor's Chisel
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,D. Sams Esq, late of Luxor, Egype,Sotheby's 23.v.21, Lot 45
Site: Egypt,Thebes
Discovery context: auction
Country: Egypt
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 58.5
Width (mm): 7, 7.5 tapering to a point
Thickness (mm): 1 + slt over 1.5
Weight (g): 5.42
Patina: dark emerald green patina on one side + dark red brown rust colour on the other, with a little dark green patina at the end.
Surface: a little rough
Associations: 15 chisels + 3 scrapers found wrapped together in a Tomb at Thebes
Remarks: One of 3 - all similar - ther others measure 54.5 x 7 + 55 x 6.5 + 6