Arrowhead

MS2639D

From: Italy

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS2639D
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Italy
Period Eneolithic | Bronze Age
Section Mediterranean
Materials Flint
Description

This piece is possibly unfinished unless its blunt point is intentional (to retard breakage). A similar explanation might be applied to the lack of corner notches. In any case, like the preceding arowheads, this would have been used to hunt small game.

Length 2.5 cm
Width 0.9 cm
Thickness 0.4 cm
Credit Line Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896

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