Engineering:Ancient Egyptian flint jewelry

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Ancient Egyptian flint Bracelet (MET 23.2.14 EGDP011486)

Egyptian Jewelry was known in the prehistoric, protodynastic, and early dynastic periods of ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptians skillfully made bracelets[1][2] and armlets[3][4] out of flint.

The flint came from locations that include Giza and Upper Egypt.[5] There is a special way to make it called graves and workshops.

no braceletts are made here Cairo Museum of Egyptian Antiquities,[6] the Fitzwilliam Museum,[7] the Pitt Rivers Museum,[8] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[9] and the Brooklyn Museum.[10]

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References

  1. Graves-Brown, Carolyn (2010). "AB29 Flint bracelet". Egypt Centre. Swansea University. http://www.egypt.swansea.ac.uk/index.php/collection/297-ab29. 
  2. Capart, Jean (2010). Primitive Art in Egypt. Forgotten Books. pp. 49–51. ISBN 9781451000009. https://books.google.com/books?id=EV2FXFw2kVMC&pg=PA49. 
  3. Petrie, W. M. Flinders (2003). Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt. Kessinger. p. 81. ISBN 9780766128347. https://books.google.com/books?id=IEbx6PmT4UYC&pg=PA81. 
  4. "Notes and News: The Burnt House at Siitagroi During the summer of 1968 and 1969". Antiquity 44 (174): 131–148. June 1970. ISSN 0003-598X. OCLC 1481624. http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/Ant/044/Ant0440131.htm. (Subscription content?)
  5. Pawlik, Alfred F. (13–17 September 1999). "The Lithic industry of the Pharaonic site Kom al-Ahmar in Middle Egypt and its relationship to the flint mines of the Wadi al-Sheikh". in Weisgerber, Gerd. Bochum, Germany. pp. 240–206. http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/alfred.pawlik/Kom-al-Ahmar.pdf. Retrieved 11 June 2012. 
  6. Thomas, Ernest S. (December 2006). "Short Guide to the Chief Exhibits of the Cairo Museum of Antiquities (Electronic Edition)". Rice University. http://www.dspace.rice.edu/jsp/xml/1911/13081/1/MusCa1915.tei-timea.html#index-div2-N12791. 
  7. "Flint bracelet". Fitzwilliam Museum. University of Cambridge. http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/index.php?oid=57625. 
  8. Asbury, Beth. "Rethinking Pitt-Rivers". Pitt Rivers Museum. University of Oxford. http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr/index.php/object-biography-index/1-prmcollection/783-flint-knife-188414082. 
  9. "Flint bracelet". Metropolitan Museum of Art. http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/100029471. 
  10. "Flint bracelet". Brooklyn Museum. http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/46224/Bracelet.