A rippled flint blade is set in an ivory handle carved on both faces in tiny relief. One side shows fighting men and boats; the other, a hunter in Mesopotamian-style robe and cap grasping two rearing lions. Made in late Predynastic Egypt and probably found at Abydos, it records contact with Mesopotamia shortly before the first pharaohs.
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Look at the blade: long, even ripples of pressure flaking run across one face, while the other was left smoothly polished, perhaps to imitate metal.
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