Object: Knife Blade
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,late Lord Amherst of Hackney, FSA,Sotheby's 17.vi.21, Lot 827
Site: Egypt,City of Akhenaten (Tell el Amarna)
Discovery context: auction
Country: Egypt
Year of discovery: 1891
Length (mm): 104
Width (mm): blade 26; tang 6, 2.5
Thickness (mm): blade 1.5; tang 5.5, 2
Weight (g): 8.52
Patina: A roughish patina of green mottled with a light greenish white on one side over the green surface.
Surface: Rough practically all over (earth encrusted on).
Description: Blade is broken near the point.
Remarks: Discovered by Lord Amherst 1891/2.