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Feb 18, 2009
Feb 18, 2009
Feb 18, 2009
Feb 18, 2009
Ibex Whetstone Handle
Ibex Whetstone Handle
1100–900 BC
Bronze, cast
Overall: 22.3 cm (8 3/4 in.)
Gift of the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary 1965.554
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For millennia, whetstones have been used for sharpening various kinds of metal blades. They were particularly important in Luristan, a center that produced bronze blades.
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