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LOT 0007
Egyptian Knapped Flint Axehead
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
5 1/8 in. (390 grams total, 13 cm including stand).
A very thick, almost domed flint hand axe or heavy scraper formed on a blade core with the perimeter edges finely knapped; with illegible label and custom-made display stand.
Provenance
From the collection of Robert De Rustafjell (1876-1943), acquired in Thebes prior to 1909.
Deaccessioned from The Heckscher Museum of Art, Long Island, NY.
Private New Jersey collection.
Published
De Rustafjaell, R., The Stone Age in Egypt: A Record of Recently Discovered Implements and Products of Handicraft of the Archaic Nilotic Races Inhabiting the Thebaid, New York, 1914, object 243.
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