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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