About: Gebel el-Arak Knife

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Ivory and flint knife dating from Egyptian prehistory

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  • قطع أثرية (ar)
  • Messer (de)
  • ganivet de 25,5 cm, datat del 3300 al 3200 ae (ca)
  • couteau en ivoire et silex datant de la préhistoire égyptienne (fr)
  • ivory and flint knife dating from Egyptian prehistory (en)
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  • Similar portrait of a probable Uruk King-Priest with a brimmed round hat and large beard, excavated in Uruk and dated to 3300 BC. Louvre Museum. (en)
  • Knife handle (en)
  • Knife handle detail with animals. (en)
  • Outline of remaining designs (en)
  • Mesopotamian king as Master of Animals on the Gebel el-Arak Knife at the top of the handle, dated circa 3300-3200 BC, Abydos, Egypt. This work of art both shows the influence of Mesopotamia on Egypt at an early date, in an example of ancient Egypt-Mesopotamia relations, and the state of Mesopotamian royal iconography during the Uruk period. (en)
  • Gebel el-Arak Knife ivory handle , in the Departement of Pre-Dynastic Egyptian antiquities, Louvre Museum. (en)
  • The ritual knife, dating to Naqada III period, with 227 sculpted animals, now on display at the Brooklyn Museum. (en)
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  • Naqada II d from (en)
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  • Bought by Georges Aaron Bénédite in Cairo from antique dealer M. Nahman, February 1914 (en)
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  • The knife handle of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has similar imagery to the Gebel el-Arak Knife, although in much poorer condition, but confirming its authenticity. It shows a ship with raised bow and rounded ships , a column of armed soldiers and a row of sitting prisoners led by a standing man, in front of a decorated building . Metropolitan Museum of Art (en)
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  • Knife handle of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (en)
  • Mesopotamian king on the Gebel el-Arak knife (en)
  • Ritual knife with animals (en)
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  • E 11517 (en)
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  • Gebel el-Arak Knife ivory handle .jpg (en)
  • Uruk King-Priest 3300 BCE portrait detail.jpg (en)
  • Knife handle of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 26.241.1 .jpg (en)
  • Knife with sculpted animals.jpg (en)
  • Ritual knife Brooklyn.jpg (en)
  • Knife handle of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 26.241.1.jpg (en)
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  • The Gebel el-Arak knife , on display at the Musée du Louvre. (en)
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  • Musée du Louvre, Sully wing, room 633 (en)
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  • Elephant ivory, flint (en)
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  • Gebel el-Arak Knife (en)
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  • Gebel el-Arak Knife (en)
  • سكين جبل العركى (ar)
  • Coltell de Gebel el-Arak (ca)
  • Tranĉilo de Gebel el-Arak (eo)
  • Cuchillo de Gebel el-Arak (es)
  • Messer vom Gebel el-Arak (de)
  • Pisau Gebel el-Arak (in)
  • Couteau de Gebel el-Arak (fr)
  • Nóż z Dżebel el-Arak (pl)
  • Faca de Gebel Araque (pt)
  • Нож из Гебель эль-Арака (ru)
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