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LOT 2603
North American Haematite Loom Weight
ARCHAIC PERIOD, 1700-1100 B.C.
3 in. (188 grams total, 77 mm including stand).
Scaphoid in profile with some tooling marks; mounted in a display stand with label 'Hematite Weight Found 1946-7', inked legend 'Poverty Point 1947-7'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found by Alan Heflin at Poverty Point, Louisiana, USA, 1946-1947.
From the private collection of a Leicestershire, UK, gentleman.
Accompanied by an illustrated catalogue card.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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