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ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Polishing Stone

Place ExcavatedJericho, Palestine, Asia

PeriodPre-Pottery Neolithic A

Date8300-7000 BCE

MediumLimestone

Credit LineJericho Excavations, 1952-1958

Dimensions2 1/2 x 3 7/16 in. (6.4 x 8.8 cm)

Object number1955.136

Exhibition HistoryMCCM 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), 507.

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

Status

Not on view

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