Fish-Tail Knife

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Fish-Tail Knife

Egypt, Predynastic-Early Dynastic Period (3600-2649 BCE)
Tools and Equipment; knives
Flint
6 3/4 × 2 1/4 × 1/8 in. (17.15 × 5.72 × 0.32 cm)
Shinji Shumeikai Acquisition Fund (AC1998.94.1)
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Robert de Rustafjaell (1859–1943), London and New York, possibly sold in 1915 at (sale, New York, Anderson Galleries, 29 November–1 December, 1915)....
Robert de Rustafjaell (1859–1943), London and New York, possibly sold in 1915 at (sale, New York, Anderson Galleries, 29 November–1 December, 1915). Robert Alistair McAlpine (1942–2014), Baron of West Green, England, Australia, Paris, Venice and Southern Italy. [Frederick Schultz Ancient Art, New York, sold 1998 to]; LACMA.
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