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LOT 1753
Stone Age Perforated Polished Axe Blade
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 5500-2400 B.P.
6 3/8 in. (403 grams, 16.2 cm).
Polished and worked on all sides to a symmetrical, almost trapezoidal shape flaring slightly towards the curved cutting edge; slightly rounded neck; grey stone (flint) with lighter and darker, partly greenish hues; conical perforation formed from both faces; one fragment reattached.
Provenance
Ex Bernard Lemoine (b.1937), Normandie.
French art market, 2022.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities From Europe and the Near East in the Collection of The Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, no.5.7, for similar form.
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