Greywacke Ceremonial Knife in Shape of Bird Wing | Photos by Tales from the Two Lands

Greywacke Ceremonial Knife in Shape of Bird Wing

From Hierakonpolis.

Early Dynastic Period, c. 3100-2690 BCE.

Acc. No.: Garstang Museum E.616

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