Many here are familiar with the Waynman Dixon and Dr. James Grant 1872 artefact discoveries from inside of the northern shaft of Khufu’s Queen’s Chamber (above left).
More obscure (above right) is a circa mid-1880’s discovery by William Matthew Flinders Petrie at the ancient Egyptian Nile Delta city of Tahpanhes (Tel Defenneh/Tel Dafana). Ostensibly one of some eighty unspecified ’bronze’ objects found among three ancient city sites (Tanis ii, Nebesheh and Defenneh). This Tel Defenneh relic is presently in the British Museum (EA23871); the Collection Description reads:
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”Corroded copper alloy object, possibly part of buckle clasp (?), with a nearly square plate, decorated with a shallow groove near two opposite edges, with an anchor-shaped double hook on one side. On the underside of the plate have been welded two parallel metal strips, pierced by a round hole (one broken) for fastening to another part of the fitting.”
Sources: Tell Dafana Reconsidered: The Archaeology of an Egyptian Frontier Town, by François Leclère and Jeffrey Spencer, The Treasures of the Pyramids, by Zahi Hawass
Dr. Troglodyte