The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Fishtail Knife

4500–4000 BCE

Egypt, Predynastic

(5000–2950 BCE), Naqada Ia–IIa (3900–3300 BCE)
dark brown to a dark green colored flint
Overall: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.674
Location: Not on view
  • Purchased from Mohammed Mohasseb and Son, Luxor, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent
  • Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced: p. 119; Mentioned: p. 119
  • CMA 1916, no. 148, p. 223
  • {{cite web|title=Fishtail Knife|url=false|author=|year=4500–4000 BCE|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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