Small Stone Age axe made of rock
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AR3364
| Object: |
Small Stone Age axe made of rock
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| Material: |
Grey rock.
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| Period: |
Circa 4300 BC until 2600 BC. New Stone Age. |
| Description: |
Stone Age axe head from Western Europe. The tool has the shape of a trapezoidal wedge and is finely polished near the blade. It is typologically a point-butted axe. The stone blade was once mounted and used as an axe. Some old chips indicate its practical use. |
| Dimensions: |
88mm long. 47mm wide at the tip of the blade, 15mm wide at the neck, 10cm thick at the neck.
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| Condition: |
Fantastic preservation. No modern damages. Nicely polished blade, otherwise coarsly polished.
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| Provenance: |
Acquired by us in 2022 on the Swiss art market. Previously in the German private collection Prof. Dr. J. M. Acquired by him between 1962 and 1969 on the art market.
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| Referenzen: |
Cf. A. MacGregor, Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of the Lord McAlpine of West Green, p. 86, no. 5.19. The piece there probably found in France.
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| Authenticity: |
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