Title: Bifacial Sickle Insert
Object type: sickle, element, denticulate, bifacial, tool
Date: ca. 4500–4000 B.C.
Period: Neolithic Period
Medium: Flint
Dimensions: L. 9.3 × W. 2.9 × Th. 0.9 cm, Wt. 28.4g (3 11/16 × 1 1/8 × 5/16 in., 1.002oz.)
Credit line: Gift of Albert Rothbart, 1933
Geography: From    Egypt Western Delta Merimda Beni Salama   Vienna Academy of Science excavations 1929–30 
Department: Egyptian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY