Acute-angled core for blades

Acute-angled core for blades

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A core is a stone from which pieces have been detached so that those pieces can be made into tools. Ancient Egyptians detached long narrow blades from this core. The blades could have been used as is, or modified into specific tools, such as sickles inserts. The presence of cores and associated debris at a site usually indicates that production took place there.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.