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ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Hammerstone

Place ExcavatedJericho, Palestine, Asia

PeriodPre-Pottery Neolithic A

Date8500-7500 BCE

MediumStone

Credit LineJericho Excavations, 1952-1958

Dimensions2 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (6.4 x 5.7 cm)

Object number1955.141

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), 221, 500, 514, number 1618.

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

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