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Description: | Flint sickle blade from Amarna 1928/29 excavations, find 110. Labelled 'TA 28.9 110'. Still has grey cement attached and grooves where it was attached to the handle. Serrated. Petrie says sickle flints were found in waste heaps near the Northern Palace. Such sickle blades may have been purely domestic or could have been ritual. Sickles complete with flint blades are frequently found in tombs, for example one was found in the tomb of Tutankhamun. The process of reaping had symbolic religious meaning. See Spurrell 'Flint tools from Tel-el Amarna' In Petrie, 1896 p37-38. For a summary of information on Dynastic flint tools see Tillmann p262-265 in K A Bard 1999. 'Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egypt' London and New York, Routledge. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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