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for food or sacrifice, as in the scenes pourtrayed on the Beni Hasan 
inscriptions, where the killing, flaying, and cutting-up of animals are very 
vividly depicted. The knife was probably used “with one end wrapped 
round with cord or fibre, or, quite probably, inserted in a wooden handle. 
Fig. 24 is skilfully a on both sides, and is very similar to those 
implements which Sir John Evans designates ‘“javelin-heads”; and indeed, 
except that it is longer, our implement approaches in form and in 
style of flaking to a specimen from an oval barrow on Winterbourn 
Stoke Beat figured in Ancient Stone Implements (p. 371, fig. 273). 
Figs. 25 and 29 (both represented of the natural size) are—or were 
‘afonded to be—pointed knives, with a straight back, a curved cutting edge, 
and a somewhat rounded handle-end, which in use would, no doubt, ba 
whipped round with cloth or papyrus leaves. Figs. 26, 27, and 28 are all 
beautifully flaked instruments, useful cither for cutting or puncturing. They 
differ from Figs. 25 and 29 in having the handle-end (to the left in the figure) 
more pointed, especially in Figs. 26 and 27, where that portion of the flint 
is narrowed as if to receive a | whipping of some sort, or to be inserted in a 
wooden handle. The dimensions of these three instruments are : -—Fig. 26, 
9,%; inches long by 2,}; at the widest part of the blade; Fig. 27, 7°; inches 
long by 1? across the blade; and Fig. 28, 743 inches long by 24 at its 
widest part. An implement very similar in form to those of Figs. 25 and 
28 is figured by Prof. Petrie‘ among the stone implements discovered by 
him in Kahun, a town of the XIlth dynasty. Figs. 26, 27, and. 28 
recall the flint knives found in Scandinavia. Indeed, many of the 
specimens collected by Mr. Seton-Karr in the Wady Sojoor (and _ still in 
his collection) are hardly to be seo tenely from many of those 
from Denmark. Fig. 30 (8,5, inches long by 2% at the widest part of 
the blade) is a rough- hewn cutting implement, with a tang 3 inches in 
length for the attachment of a handle. The same form—similar to IVth 
dynasty implements—has been figured by M. de Morgan, both uncompleted t 
(found at Dimeh) and in a beautifully finished state? (supposed to be from 
Abydos). Fig. 31, also a roughly blocked out implement, was apparently 
intended to be double- edged, and to be attached by a tang—2,'5 inches in 
length—to a lance- shaft as its tip. Its length is 512 inches, and its greatest 
breadth 23. In Fig. 32 we have a triangular-bladed or harpoon-shaped 
implement, 7% inches nae by 2£ im greatest breadth, having a tang 2$ inches 
in length, by which it was probably attached to the point of a spear-shaft or 
a fish-harpoon. Professor Petrie has figured$ a nearly identical specimen 
(with its point unfortunately broken off), found by him in Kahun, and 
M. de Morgan one found at Toukh on the surface, while the Mayer 
Museum possesses from Egypt a_ similarly shaped implement, of un- 
known history, in copper or bronze. Fig. 33 is a fragment of unusual 
shape, 5{ inches in length (classed under the present section for want of 
a better surmise as to its use), showing little more than the butt end, with a 
knobbed termination, as if it had been intended to tie it to a handle or 
shaft. Figs. 34 and 35 (the former a rough three-sided bar of flint, 74 inches 
in length “by 27, wide, and the latter a flat disk of the natural size) are 
evidently, the one a roughly blocked out knife, and the other the terminal 
fragment of a rough- hewn blade broken in the making. 
(¢) Hoes, Clod-Breakers, or Agricultural Implements.—Of the forms 
represented in Figs. 36 and 37 the large number in the collections indicates 

* Tlahun, Kahun, and Gurob, pl. vii., fig. 7 
+ Recherches sur les Origines de 0 Egypte, vol. i. p. 109, fig. 118. $Id. i. p. 110, fig. 124. 
§Mlahun, Kahun, and Gurob, pl. vii., fig. 16. 

