Lithic sharpener

Item No.

Exhibit 040

Inventory No.

No. 61072/11985 (Sabap SS-NU)

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. Based on the context, the find is dated to the Final Bronze Age (12th-10th centuries B.C.).

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