Wilkinson, John Gardner; Birch, Samuel [Contr.]: The Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs: being a companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian collections (London, 1857)

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DOMESTIC HABITS OF THE EGYPTIANS.

various kinds, as might be supposed, are much more common,
both in the tombs and in the paintings. They are of bronze,





(W. 91.)

but the coloured representations of them show that some were
of iron or steel, being painted blue. They consisted chiefly of
the short sword or dagger, the spear, javelin, and arrow, the
club, pole-axe, the hatchet, the battle-axe, and the falchion;
and many specimens of the three last may be seen in our
museums (woodcuts 94,95). The arrows were of wood or reed,
with a bronze head (woodcut 96, fig. 2); but those used for the
chase were frequently tipped with flint (fig. 1), or had a point
of hard wood (fig. 3), the shaft itself being of reed.