IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 49557 accession number: E.16b.1898 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Fragment from a flint knife. Knives were functional, ritual and symbolic. Flint is very hard and so makes an effective tool or weapon. title: knife LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/49557 TECHNIQUES ---------- napped CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 3000 - 2500 creation date earliest: 3000 creation date latest: 2500 culture: Predynastic culture: Early Dynastic Period DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 10.5 CITATIONS -------- Ancient Hierakonpolis. Supplement --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/E_16b_1898_281_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/mid_E_16b_1898_281_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/E_16b_1898_281_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/preview_E_16b_1898_281_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/E_16b_1898_282_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/mid_E_16b_1898_282_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/E_16b_1898_282_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/preview_E_16b_1898_282_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels