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): 76
Width (mm): 28
Thickness (mm): Less than 2mm thick. The thickness cannot really be determined because of the encrustment.
Weight (g): 10.85
Surface: One side is completely encrusted with a rough pale earthy green + the other side is black except for parts near the edge where there is an ecncrustment + soil mixed.
Description: Very coppery in appearance. Quite flat in section.
Remarks: Discovered by Lord Amherst 1891/2