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This room displays a collection
from the mastaba of Hemaka.The
mastaba of Hemaka who was a high official under king Den (the
fifth king of the first dynasty) from Saqqara. Discovered by the
Antiquities Department in 1931.
The most unique objects in this collection are:
- Discs of copper, stones, wool, horn and ivory. These discs were
used like modern spinning tops and it spuns around a wooden stick.
Some inlaid in colored stones with a hunting scene and a geometric
pattern.
- Stickles of wood with flint teeth blades used to cut the grain
crops like barely and wheat.
- Other objects of interest are fragments of a sheet of papyrus,
which considered as oldest scribal equipment.
- Great number of arrows, other arrows were found in quivers of
leather.
- Large collection of flint implements some of knives, adzes.
- Large collection of stone and pottery vases, some of latter
being inscribed in ink in hieratic with the name of their contents
such as siddare , nabqu and wheat.
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