Silex tool, worked on all surfaces and edges. Slightly trapeze-shaped. Rectangular cross-section with slightly convex broad sides and straight narrow sides. Neck straight and blunt. Blade rounded and sharpened with fine blows. Unpolished so-called “flat axe” (German: “Flachbeil”) or “rectangular axe” (German: “Rechteckbeil"), wide-spread in South Scandinavia and North Germany in the 4th mill. B.C. Yellow-brown stone (Silex) with beige and brown-red patches. Intact; a few traces of encrustation.
PROVENANCE
Formerly German priv. coll., 1940-1950s. French art market, prior 2017.
NOTE
Cf. J. Weiner, Neolithische Beilklingen aus Feuerstein. In: H. Floss (ed.), Steinartefakte vom Paläolithikum bis in die Neuzeit. Tübingen Publications in Prehistory. 2nd ed. (Tübingen 2013) 827-835. U. Weller, Äxte und Beile erkennen, bestimmen, beschreiben. Bestimmungsbuch Archäologie 2 (Munich 2014) 65, no. 2.4.2.1.