Object: Fish-Hook
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): A. 39.5; B. 38
Width (mm): A. 15.5; B. 17
Weight (g): A: 1.94; B. 1.55
Surface: Both rather rough through corrosion, with fine soil in a sort of encrustment all over.
Description: These were probably made of round wire hammered a little flat. The curled end for fastening is corroded solid on each.
Remarks: Discovered by Lord Amherst in 1891/2.