Title: Blade inscribed for the Overseer of Upper Egypt Idi
Object type: Blade
Date: ca. 2100 B.C.
Period: First Intermediate Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 9–11
Medium: unalloyed copper
Dimensions: L. 38.5 cm (15 3/16 in); greatest w. 5 cm (1 15/16 in); greatest th. 0.45 (3/16 in)
wgt. 185 gms
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1929
Geography: Said to be from     Middle Egypt Tuna el-Gebel    
Department: Egyptian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY