Stone tool: granite hammer
Compact granite hammer; "necking" so shallow as to be hardly a groove at all, hollow made by abrasion on one side, opposite side smoother, edge blunt.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_06.1878
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_06.1878; 06.1878
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Tools & equipment-Woodworking and stoneworking
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
- Entry Date
- about 2323–2150 B.C.
- Title
- Stone tool: granite hammer
- Medium
- Granite
- Dimensions
- Height x width:19.5 x 9.5 cm (7 11/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Mastaba G 2150
- Bibliography
- Berger, Ernst, Brigitte Müller-Huber, and Lukas Thommen. Der Entwurf des Künstlers: Bildhauerkanon in der Antike und Neuzeit. 2 vols. Basel: Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, 1992 [to be completed].
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1906: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession Date: November 8, 1906)
- Remarks
- Object not registered (no registration records for 1903-1904-1905-1906).
