Pick
Gallery Location
Galleries of Africa: Egypt
Medium
flint
Geography
Luxor, Egypt
Date
c. 1985-1773 BCE
Period
12th Dynasty, Middle Kingdom
Dimensions
21.0 × 8.5 × 6.5 cm
Object number
930.119.2
Credit Line
Gift of Heywood Seton-Karr, Esq.
Cataloguer
Gayle Gibson
ROM Staff, 1990-2015; ROM Volunteer 2015-Present
Collection
Department
Art & Culture: Ancient Egypt & Nubia
Description
Flint tools were always in use in Ancient Egypt. Abundant raw material and generations of application made such tools essential for any construction. Picks such as this, usually but not always hafted, could be used to excavate tombs in the Valley of the Kings, or to rough out stone for construction.
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