Tool
MS2637G
From: Italy
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS2637G |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Italy |
Period | Upper Paleolithic |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Jasper |
Description | This piece is manufactured from a small stone already of suitable shape unworked surfaces on three sides of the body of the tool.) Some tiny pressure flaking around the striaght point of the tool. The strnegth of the tip suggests that the burin may have been used to incise something hard - possibly bone or pottery. |
Length | 3.8 cm |
Width | 9 cm |
Thickness | 0.1 cm |
Credit Line | Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896 |
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