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An Egyptian Flint Knife from Knossos*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2013

Gerald Cadogan
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In January 1965 Mr. Sinclair Hood came upon a flint knife in a box of pottery in the Stratigraphical Museum at Knossos from the West ‘kouloura’ house in the West Court, which he kindly referred to me to publish. The knife is unrecorded, and is a unique import of its type into the Aegean in the Bronze Age, if it did reach Crete in Middle Minoan times. On the assumption that it did, it must have been passed over by Pendlebury, who excavated with his wife the ‘kouloura’ houses.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 61 , November 1966 , pp. 147 - 148
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1966

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References

1 The excavation of the ‘kouloura’ houses is published in BSA xxx (1928–30) 53–73 and PM iv. 66–74. It is just possible that the knife is a twentieth-century import, which, for example, fell out of somebody's pocket or was mislaid in the Stratigraphical Museum.

2 Kahun pl. 16, top row, left of column; Illahun 52 f., pls. 7. 7, 8; 13. 6 (= Schaeffer, Stratigraphie comparée (1948) fig. 53. 9) with binding cord preserved.

3 Harageh ii, pl. 7. 8, 10.

4 Beni Hassan iii, fig. on p. 35.

5 PM iv. 64.

6 BSA xxx (1928–30) 58; PM iv. 69.

7 (1965) 141.

8 The latest review of Middle Minoan chronology is by Åström, , KK xv–xvi (1961–2) 137–48.Google Scholar

9 BSA x (1903–4) 61. Possibly two were found: cf. Phylakopi 223 and n. 3.

10 BSA xxviii (1926–7) 257.

11 Persson, , New Tombs at Dendra (1942) 48–49.Google Scholar

12 CT 222–3, with lists of early and late occurrences.

13 BSA xlii (1947) 172.

14 Similar flint knives are known from Byblos (e.g. Dunand, , Fouilles de Byblos ii (1950) 104, 136 fig. 128, pl. 186, 7475Google Scholar; 527 f. fig. 600, pl. 186, 12485).

15 PM i. 266, 291.