Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
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Knife Fragment, between 1800 and 1700 BCE
wood
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Maker Egyptian
Title
  • Knife Fragment
Date between 1800 and 1700 BCE
Medium Wood
Dimensions Overall: 6 1/8 inches (15.6 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Henry G. Fischer
Accession Number F81.29
Department Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
Not On View
Provenance
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York, USA);
purchased by Dr. Henry G. Fischer (Sherman, Connecticut, USA);
1981-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Fischer, H. "Notes on Sticks and Staves in Ancient Egypt," The Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 13 (1978): pp. 5-32.

Porter-Moss. Topographical Bibliography, vol. I, pt. II, p. 654.