flint implements of the fayum. 751 



ance. The patination, which is sometimes extraordinary, proves their antiquity. 

 Nos. 201 to 213, whether arrow or javelin heads, are of rare, varied, and practically 

 unfamiliar types. No. 214 is unique. 



Plate 10. 



These are large and remarkahle forms of arrows. 



Plate 11. 



Nos. 237 and 238 are rare form , of which one example was found and figured by 

 Beadnell. No. 239 is unique and is perhaps a "grattoir," combined with a borer, 

 like the "poincon Solutreen," Nos. 243, 244, 245 are butt ends of similar ones. Nos. 

 241 and 242 are somewhat similar to each other, and have therefore been placed 

 together. They were probably used for boring wood, as the cutting edge is worked 

 only on one side. No. 240 has the concave part at the end very carefully worked. 

 Nos. 246 and 249 are flakes beautifully worked into knives. Larger examples of 

 these, struck off as a single flake from the block and delicately serrated, are shown 

 in the Cairo Museum. No. 250 is a knife with rounded ends. 



Plate 12. 



An example of No. 251 was found and figured by Beadnell in the publication 

 previously referred to. No. 252 is a portion of a long serrated spearhead. No. 253 

 consists of parts of an armlet, similar to those discovered in Wadi esh-Sheikh, and 

 figured in the Liverpool Museum Bulletin, as well as in Read's Guide to the Stone 

 Age, published by the British Museum. Another example may be found in the 

 Cairo Museum. No. 256 is a spearhead, finely worked in purple flint with white 

 patinations. No. 257 is the same. No. 258 resembles the implements on Plate 11, 

 but is flat on the underside, as also is No. 254. No. 259 was picked up under a large 

 rock by a Berber boy. M. Maspero says that these are now regarded as sacrificial 

 knives, and they are so labeled in the Cairo Museum. The serrations pointing for- 

 ward to keep the handle in place, are especially to be noted. 



