Lithic sharpener
Item No.
Exhibit 040
Inventory No.
61072, 11985
Provenance
Nuragic Village S’Urbale, Teti – Hut F
Acquisition
Archaeological excavation 1983
Material
Litico
Measures
Max thickness 2.70 cm; length 22 cm
Conservation
Mutilated
Period
Nuragic
Dating
Final Bronze Age (12th-10th centuries B.C.)
The stone sharpener comes from a storage room inside Hut F of the nuragic village of S’Urbale, where numerous tools of daily use were placed.
Equipped with a suspension hole useful for transportation, it is very thinned in the central part due to prolonged use to sharpen bronze blades.
