A set of model tools unearthed from the Tomb of Ankhef. These date from the Middle Kingdom period in Egypt - around 2,000 BC.
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Inscription reads: "The one in honor with Anubis, Lord of Kereret, Ankhef", followed by a list of tools that the box likely once contained: "6 axes, 6 adzes, 6 reamers, 6 saws".
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These are models from this era; possibly the four thousand-year-old equivalent of a miniature? Note the length of the adze; that's just under 1 shesep (translation: approximately half of a double handbreath).
Or, for those of us who prefer to express our units of measurement in fractional hieroglyphics, that's about one-third of a https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...easurement.png
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On display now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan.
More: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544288
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...188#post103533
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...1427#post74392
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...4151#post79422
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...572#post104618
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...8939#post88345