Egyptian Knapped Flint Axehead
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.. A very thick, almost domed flint hand axe or heavy scraper formed on a blade core with the perimeter edges finely knapped; with illegible label and custom-made display stand. De Rustafjaell, R., The Stone Age in Egypt: A Record of Recently Discovered Implements and Products of Handicraft of the Archaic Nilotic Races Inhabiting the Thebaid, New York, 1914, object 243.
390 grams total, 13 cm including stand (5 1/8 in.).
From the collection of Robert De Rustafjell (1876-1943), acquired in Thebes prior to 1909.Deaccessioned from The Heckscher Museum of Art, Long Island, NY.Private New Jersey collection.