Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
$900.00
Made of dense brown stone, divided by smooth notches into blade with hook shaped cutting edge, wide middle part with vertical shaft-hole and a spherical butt. Top plane slightly concave, the bottom one is flat. Finely polished all over. Drilled from both end, horizontal parallel grooves are polished a well, different diameters of top and bottom.
Intact. Length 4.2″ (10.6 cm), Height 2.4” (6.1 cm) Width 2.4” (6 cm)
Blade is smoothly rounded, excluding its use as functional cutting tool. It’s been suggested by scholars that it was either a parade weapon, insignia of power of military superiors.
For similar published archaeological examples see:
– Klochko V. I., Weaponry of societies of the Northern Pontic culture circle: 5000-700 BC. Poznań : Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Eastern Studies, Institute of Prehistory, 2001, Fig. 47: 1 , 2.