Pick

Third Intermediate Period

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 130

Left behind in the Mentuhotep Temple at Deir el-Bahri, this pick had been used by later stone robbers to pry up floor slabs from the lower colonnade to use elsewhere. It was found with a hoe that was slotted into a handle that also fit this pick. Both the pick and the hoe blade had "recently" (in antiquity) been sharpened.

Pick, Wood

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Pick, Wood
Pick, Wood
Pick, Wood
Pick, Wood

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