Quern (Mortar) Fragment

Place ExcavatedJericho, Palestine, Asia

PeriodPottery Neolithic

Date7000-5500 BCE

MediumLimestone

Credit LineJericho Excavations, 1952-1958

Dimensions5 3/8 x 2 1/2 in. (13.6 x 6.4 cm)

Object number1955.139

Label TextStone grinders, querns, and pestles were used to prepare flour.
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - Spring 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, October 6, 2001 - March 2004
Published ReferencesKathleen Kenyon, Excavations at Jericho V: The Pottery Phases of the Tell and Other Finds (London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1983), 228, number 1134.

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

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