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ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Polishing Stone

Place ExcavatedJericho, Palestine, Asia

PeriodPre-Pottery Neolithic A-B

Date8500-7000 BCE

MediumLimestone

Credit LineJericho Excavations, 1952-1958

Dimensions1 7/16 x 3 1/4 in. (3.7 x 8.2 cm)

Object number1955.152

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), 531.

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

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