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Adze head (?)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Ancient Near Eastern Art

Adze head (?)

Sumerian

Date
ca. 2700–2600 BCE
Medium
Quartz or jasper
Dimensions
0.67 x 1.5 x 2.01 in. (1.7 x 3.81 x 5.11 cm)
Object type
Adze
Classification
Stone-Implements
Culture
Sumerian
Period
Early Dynastic II
Object number
62.70.38
Credit line
Rogers Fund, 1962
Original Met record

The Met object ID 325443. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.