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ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Awl

Place ExcavatedJericho, Palestine, Asia

PeriodPre-Pottery Neolithic A

Date8500-7500 BCE

MediumBone

Credit LineJericho Excavations, 1952-1958

Dimensions1/4 x 1 15/16 in. (0.6 x 5 cm)

Object number1958.031

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - Spring 2001
Published ReferencesKathleen Kenyon, Excavations at Jericho IV: The Pottery Type Series and Other Finds (London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1982), 587, figure 232.11.

ProvenanceExcavated by Kathleen Kenyon (1906-1978), Jericho, Palestine.

Status

Not on view

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