Notes sur le mobilier funéraire de Thoutmosis IV § 1 – Des poignards nubiens dans la KV 43 ?

The tomb of Thutmose IV (KV 43), excavated in the early twentieth century by Howard Carter, contained two leather-scabbard fragments, which probably attested to the presence of daggers in the burial assemblage of this 18th-dynasty king. The present article suggests, after a short description of the two objects published for the first time in 1904, that they are similar to a particular type of dagger discovered in the Nubian city of Kerma in particular. A discussion of the reasons that might have led an 18th-century king to take Nubian daggers his tomb with is then proposed.