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ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Pestle

Place ExcavatedJericho, Palestine, Asia

PeriodPre-Pottery Neolithic A-B

Date8500-7000 BCE

MediumBasalt, limestone

Credit LineJericho Excavations, 1952-1958

Dimensions5 15/16 x 2 1/2 in. (15.1 x 6.3 cm)

Object number1955.138

Label TextStone grinders, querns, and pestles were used to prepare flour.
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - Spring 2001
Published ReferencesKathleen Kenyon, Excavations at Jericho V: The Pottery Phases of the Tell and Other Finds (London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1983), 504, number 1474.

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

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