Object with a Handle, Perhaps a Weight in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2010

Object with a handle, perhaps a weight; palm trees and guilloche

Period: Early Bronze Age

Date: ca. mid- to late 3rd millennium B.C.

Geography: Persian Gulf region or southern Iran

Medium: Chlorite schist

Dimensions: H. 22.9 cm; W. 25.1 cm; D. 4.6 cm

Classification: Stone-Implement

Credit Line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989

Accession Number: 1989.281.40

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