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Third Intermediate Period
Left behind in the Mentuhotep Temple at Deir el-Bahri, this hoe had been used by later stone robbers to pry up floor slabs from the lower colonnade to use elsewhere. Found with it was a pick that could be slotted into the same handle, so that the two implements were interchangeable. Both the pick and the hoe blade had "recently" (in antiquity) been sharpened.
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Title: Hoe
Period: Third Intermediate Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 21–22
Date: ca. 1070–950 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Temple of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II, South lower colonnade, MMA excavations, 1922–23
Medium: Wood, cord
Dimensions: Head L. 51 cm (20 1/16 in.); Blade L. 45 cm (17 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1923
Object Number: 23.3.42
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