Knife
MS2638A
From: Italy
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS2638A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Italy |
| Period | Upper Paleolithic | Mesolithic |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Jasper |
| Description | Piece has been extensively retouched. In several locations it has been severely battered but retouched again. This blade is too large, curved and crudely struck to have functioned as anything but a knife. This conclusion is supported by the fact that it was never broken. |
| Length | 8 cm |
| Width | 2 cm |
| Thickness | 0.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896 |
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