Sickle Blade
Artist
Anonymous (Egyptian)
(Egyptian)
DateEgyptian, Predynastic, Badarian period 5000 - 4000 B.C.E., possibly early Naqada I period (c. 4000 - 3600 B.C.E.)
Period5th millennium BCEor 4th millennium BCE
MediumBrown-gray flint
Dimensions5 1/8 x 1 5/8 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 number2018.035
Curatorial DepartmentAncient Western Art
_Place of OriginEgypt
Anonymous (Egyptian)
Predynastic, Badarian period 5000 - 4000 B.C.E.
Object number: 2018.034
Anonymous (Egyptian)
New Kingdom, 18th dynasty, Reign of Hatshepsut, 1473–1458 B.C.E.
Object number: 2016.086
John Vanderlyn
c. 1840
Object number: 2011.015
Anonymous (Iranian)
c. 550–331 B.C.E., Archaemenid period
Object number: 2009.012.11
Anonymous (Iranian)
c. 550–331 B.C.E., Archaemenid period
Object number: 2009.012.12
Anonymous (Sumerian)
c. 224–651 CE, Sasanian dynasty
Object number: 2009.012.13
Anonymous (Sumerian)
c. 2300–2100 B.C.E., Akkadian period
Object number: 2009.012.06
Anonymous (Egyptian)
2520–2195 B.C.E., Old Kingdom, 5th-6th Dynasty
Object number: 2005.022
Anonymous (Egyptian)
760–656 B.C.E., Late period, 25th Dynasty
Object number: 2007.001
