Naqada Culture Copper Dagger

Description

Typical features of the Naqada culture daggers are triangular shape of the cutting edge and rhomboidal cross-section with distinctive middle rib. Specimen presented here is a model based on preserved examples known from various Naqada culture sites. Such short daggers were equipped with wooden or ivory handles, similar to one depicted on the model. Similar examples were found, among others, in Tell el-Farkha or el-Amrah. 3D model was made as a part of the project financed under the National Science Center of Poland grant UMO-2014/15/N/HS3/01144 "The comparative analyses of Early Bronze Age Egyptian and Southern Levantine copper tools including the influences from the Arabian Peninsula and Mesopotamia region".