Ancient Egyptian flint jewelry

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Flint jewelry was known in the prehistoric, protodynastic, and early dynastic periods of ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptians skillfully made bracelets{{cite web|last=Graves-Brown |first=Carolyn |title=AB29 Flint bracelet |url=http://www.egypt.swansea.ac.uk/index.php/collection/297-ab29 |work=Egypt Centre |publisher=Swansea University |access-date=11 June 2012 |year=2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319003938/http://www.egypt.swansea.ac.uk/index.php/collection/297-ab29 |archive-date=19 March 2012 }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EV2FXFw2kVMC&pg=PA49|title=Primitive Art in Egypt|first=Jean|last=Capart|author-link=Jean Capart|pages=49–51|isbn=9781451000009|year=2010|publisher=Forgotten Books}} and armlets{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IEbx6PmT4UYC&pg=PA81|title=Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt|first=W. M. Flinders|last=Petrie|author-link=Flinders Petrie|page=81|year=2003|publisher=Kessinger |isbn=9780766128347}}{{cite journal|journal=Antiquity|volume=44|issue=174|pages=131–148|url=http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/Ant/044/Ant0440131.htm|title=Notes and News: The Burnt House at Siitagroi During the summer of 1968 and 1969|date=June 1970|issn=0003-598X|oclc=1481624}}{{subscription required}} out of flint.

The flint came from locations that include Giza and Upper Egypt.{{cite conference|first=Alfred F. |last=Pawlik |title=The Lithic industry of the Pharaonic site Kom al-Ahmar in Middle Egypt and its relationship to the flint mines of the Wadi al-Sheikh |url=http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/alfred.pawlik/Kom-al-Ahmar.pdf |access-date=11 June 2012 |pages=240–206 |book-title=Stone Age – Mining Age. Proceedings of the VIII International Flint Symposium |date=13–17 September 1999 |editor-first=Gerd |editor-last=Weisgerber |editor-link=Gerd Weisgerber |location=Bochum, Germany |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611054659/http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/alfred.pawlik/Kom-al-Ahmar.pdf |archive-date=11 June 2007 }} The exact technique used to form rings is not known, but there are several theories based on the examples that have been found in graves and workshops.

Flint bracelets can be found in collections such as those in the Cairo Museum of Egyptian Antiquities,{{cite web|url=http://www.dspace.rice.edu/jsp/xml/1911/13081/1/MusCa1915.tei-timea.html#index-div2-N12791|title=Short Guide to the Chief Exhibits of the Cairo Museum of Antiquities (Electronic Edition)|access-date=11 June 2012|date=December 2006|first=Ernest S.|last=Thomas|publisher=Rice University}} the Fitzwilliam Museum,{{cite web|url=http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/index.php?oid=57625 |title=Flint bracelet |work=Fitzwilliam Museum |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=11 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116073102/http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/index.php?oid=57625 |archive-date=16 January 2014 }} the Pitt Rivers Museum,{{cite web|title=Rethinking Pitt-Rivers|url=http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr/index.php/object-biography-index/1-prmcollection/783-flint-knife-188414082|first=Beth|last=Asbury|access-date=11 June 2012|work=Pitt Rivers Museum|publisher=University of Oxford}} the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/100029471|title=Flint bracelet|work=Metropolitan Museum of Art|access-date=11 June 2012}} and the Brooklyn Museum.{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/46224/Bracelet|work=Brooklyn Museum|title=Flint bracelet|access-date=11 June 2012}}