Pick

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Left behind in the Mentuhotep Temple at Deir el-Bahri, this pick had been used by later stone robbers to pry up floor slabs from the lower colonnade to use elsewhere. It was found with a hoe that was slotted into a handle that also fit this pick. Both the pick and the hoe blade had "recently" (in antiquity) been sharpened.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.

Metropolitan Museum of Art