1920.44.15: Whetstone
Tools and Equipment
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1920.44.15
- Title
- Whetstone
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Work Type
- whetstone
- Date
- 900-700 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Luristan (Iran)
- Period
- Iron Age
- Culture
- Iranian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292595
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Stone
- Dimensions
- 2 x 2 x 11.9 cm (13/16 x 13/16 x 4 11/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920.
Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton
- Accession Year
- 1920
- Object Number
- 1920.44.15
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Whetstone with hole for attachment to bronze finial of the type found in Luristan; compare 1931.4.
Verification Level
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