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A Dagger Blade

3.800 CHF

Net for Export

Prehistory

Europe, Late Neolithic, ca. 3000 - 2200 B.C.

Silex

Height: 21.5 cm

Width: 4.8 cm (max.)

Width: 3.1 cm (shaft)

Tool retouched on both sides. Symmetrical shape, tang slightly offset from blade. Flat cross-section. Straight longitudinal profile. Both surfaces of the blade entirely retouched. Base of tang with preserved impact surface corresponds to the proximal end of the original blade. Sharp edges with additional retouching at the rim. Grey-light beige stone (silex), tang and tip with dark grey to black marbling. Tip very slightly worn, otherwise intact.

PROVENANCE

Formerly Austrian priv. coll., acquired in the 1990s on the art market. German art market, 2017.

NOTE

V. Arnold, Spätneolithische Flinttechnologie im Norden. In: H. Floss (ed.) Steinartefakte. Vom Altpaläolithikum bis in die Neuzeit. Tübingen Publications in Prehistory. 2nd edition (Tübingen 2013) 923-930.

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