Description

This sickle is a combination of ancient flint blades and a modern wooden handle. Bitumen holds the blades in gouged cavities in the wood.

Sickles were used in Ancient Egypt to harvest grains. The ancient people cut the ears of wheat from the stem and left the straw in the field. Wood and flint sickles such as our model were in use in Egypt for thousands of years, before being gradually replaced in Roman times by iron blades. 

Traditional sickles can be seen at use in many tombs, such as that of Sennedjem at Deir el Medina, where he and his wife, Iy-nefer, i can be seen harvesting wheat in the bountiful fields of Yalu in the Afterlife. A fine ceremoniall sickle, made of gilded wood with glass blades, was found in the tomb of Tutankhamun.