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LOT 2296
Large Prehispanic Grooved Polished Stone Axehead
NEOLITHIC, 6TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
7 1/4 in. (1.1 kg, 18.5 cm).
Lentoid in section with tongue-shaped cheeks, shallow groove to neck and broadly trapezoidal head with rounded butt; numbered collector's id labels applied to one face. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex private collection, Mézières-lez-Cléry, France, 1970.
Acquired by inheritance in 2022.
Literature
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession numbers 92.3a and 94.6, for similar.
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