Stone tool: granite whetstone
Roughly rectangular piece of granite used as sharpening stone for chisels; heavy green stain on one side.
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-11-55
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_13-11-55; 13-11-55
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Tools & equipment-Miscellaneous
- Entry Date
- 11/01/1913
- Title
- Stone tool: granite whetstone
- Medium
- Granite
- Dimensions
- Height: 13 cm Width: 8 cm Length: 6 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4140 A
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 464.