Auction 75 · Lot 300
Group of four. Length: 5 - 2.5 inches.
Group of four. Length: 5 - 2.5 inches.
- Estimate
- $500–$700
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
ANCIENT STONE FLINT BLADES
Publication
Egypt
summary
The Torah (Shemoth 4:25) records that Zipporah (wife of Moshe) took a sharp stone (“Tzor”) and circumcised her son. In the Book of Joshua (5:2), God instructs Yehoshua to circumcise all Jews who were born during the forty years of wandering in the desert. The Hebrew term for these knives is: “Charvoth-Tzurim.”
These are the ancient flint knives that the Torah is referring to.
Provenance: Formerly in the collection of the American archaeologist Dr. Donald Brown (1908-2014).