Blade — insert for a sickle;, Flint tool used as a sickle insert. Sumer, Southern Mesopotamia; Uruk culture, ca. 4th–3rd millennium BC ca. 4000–3100 BC. Tool., A roughly rectangular fragment with scalloped vertical edges sits against a flat gray background; the fragment is an off-white, beige color with darker speckles and faint grayish streaks, and there is a vertical streak of darker gray running near its center; a small area of muted green appears near the top, and there is a vertical band of bold red marks along the lower portion; the fragment's surface looks slightly rough and weathered with uneven contours.
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Blade — insert for a sickle;, Flint tool used as a sickle insert. Sumer, Southern Mesopotamia; Uruk culture, ca. 4th–3rd millennium BC ca. 4000–3100 BC. Tool., A roughly rectangular fragment with scalloped vertical edges sits against a flat gray background; the fragment is an off-white, beige color with darker speckles and faint grayish streaks, and there is a vertical streak of darker gray running near its center; a small area of muted green appears near the top, and there is a vertical band of bold red marks along the lower portion; the fragment's surface looks slightly rough and weathered with uneven contours.

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Photo12/Liszt Collection

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LZT26A00_346

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Keywords

Blade insert sickle Flint tool sickle insert Sumer Southern Mesopotamia Uruk culture ca 4th–3rd millennium BC ca 4000–3100 Bc Tool roughly rectangular fragment scalloped vertical edges sits flat gray background fragment off-white beige color darker speckles faint grayish streaks vertical streak darker gray running near center small area muted green top vertical band bold red marks lower portion fragment's surface looks slightly rough weathered uneven contours.

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