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Sickle Insert

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Description

Flint

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Fragmentary, elongated stone implement resembling a sickle insert/blade piece with a notched/serrated edge on one side.

The image shows a small, narrow, vertically oriented fragment of hard, light-colored material (gray-tan with weathering). One long edge preserves a series of small, regularly spaced notches, giving a serrated/dentated profile consistent with a cutting edge. The opposite edge is straighter and smoother. A small red inventory/marking is visible on the left-lower portion of the object; no carved or painted ancient hieroglyphs are clearly visible on the artifact itself. No identifiable figures, iconography, or cartouches are present.

unclear Early Dynastic Period ? (per catalogue) fragmentary
Materials stoneflint (catalogue)

Connections

Found at Deir el-Ballas
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