Blade — insert for a sickle; flint tool; Sumer; Uruk culture, ca. 4th–3rd millennium BC ca. 4000–3100 BC; Southern Mesopotamia; sickle tool., A vertically oriented, irregularly shaped stone fragment with scalloped edges shown against a uniform gray background; the stone displays a range of beige, tan, light brown, off-white, and gray tones with darker speckles and subtle streaks, a shallow central groove running lengthwise, and faint curved incised lines on one side, with a slightly rough, weathered surface texture.
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Blade — insert for a sickle; flint tool; Sumer; Uruk culture, ca. 4th–3rd millennium BC ca. 4000–3100 BC; Southern Mesopotamia; sickle tool., A vertically oriented, irregularly shaped stone fragment with scalloped edges shown against a uniform gray background; the stone displays a range of beige, tan, light brown, off-white, and gray tones with darker speckles and subtle streaks, a shallow central groove running lengthwise, and faint curved incised lines on one side, with a slightly rough, weathered surface texture.

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Photo12/Liszt Collection

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LZT26A00_345

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Keywords

Blade insert sickle flint tool Sumer Uruk culture ca 4th–3rd millennium BC ca 4000–3100 Bc Southern Mesopotamia sickle tool vertically oriented irregularly shaped stone fragment scalloped edges shown uniform gray background stone displays range beige tan light brown off-white gray tones darker speckles subtle streaks shallow central groove running lengthwise faint curved incised lines side slightly rough weathered surface texture.

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