Knife Or Scraper
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Nov 1948
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mr. David I. Bushnell Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Ovate; 1 corner broken. Chipped side dark brown from sun. Attached label [in Italian]: "Coltello de selce a forma di foglia; rotto [sic, this looks like it may actually be rotti, not rotto, on the artifact label] Da Wady [Wadi] el Sheikh, Alto Egitto:; nel deserto @ E. del Nilo. Avuto 20X. 1900. E. H. Giglioli.""
label: Notes
content: E. H. Giglioli is presumably Enrico Hillyer Giglioli (June 13, 1845 – December 16, 1909), an Italian zoologist and anthropologist, and may have been the collector? Very roughly translated, the Italian label attached to the artifact appears to say: Leaf-shaped flint knife, broken, from Wadi el-Sheikh, Upper Egypt, in the desert to the East of the Nile. See Köhler EC, Hart E, Klaunzer M (2017) Wadi el-Sheikh: A new archaeological investigation of ancient Egyptian chert mines. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0170840. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170840. The article includes a detailed map showing the location of the Wadi el-Sheikh valley.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Wadi el-Sheikh, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ancient Egyptian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 180456
label: USNM Number
content: A391845-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife