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Knife Blade
Knife Blade

Knife Blade

Artist (Egyptian)
DatePredynastic, Badarian period 5000 - 4000 B.C.E.
Period5th millennium BCE
MediumOrange-brown flint
Dimensions4 1/4 x 1 inches
Credit LineJoint purchase of the Middlebury College Museum of Art and Middlebury College Special Collections with funds provided by a gift (by exchange) of Wilson Farnsworth, George Mead, and Henry Sheldon and the Friends of the Library
Object number2018.034
Curatorial DepartmentAncient Western Art
_Place of OriginEgypt
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