Couteau de Gebel el-Arak - Musée du Louvre Antiquités égyptiennes E 11517 - recto verso
Artifact · Disputed · Abydos area, Egypt (proposed find-spot; dealer reported Gebel el-Arak)

Gebel el-Arak Knife

Bought from a dealer in 1914, this Egyptian knife shows a man taming two lions.

Naqada II C-D, c. 3600-3200 BC (Louvre); 3450-3400 BC (Wikipedia)

A dealer named the find-spot in 1914. How much history should rest on an object like that?

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Photo: Shonagon, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

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